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To: Ilaine who wrote (120466)	11/25/2003 6:51:37 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

To the contrary, I think that E. Rothstein's suggestion is vary valid. As things stand now, a "Re-Unification" of the area which is presently Israel and Palestine would carry a huge risk of genocide. I think that God would have to take away the Israeli's minds for them to agree to that. If the international community will go into the business of "synthesizing" multinational, or multireligious new countries as a way to resolve conflicts and avoid wars, then it would make plenty of sense to start with, let's say, a place like Kashmir. In Kashmir, the passions are intense, and wars have been already fought. There is a continuous danger that this conflict may spark a full scale nuclear war. And yet, neither India's nor Pakistan's survival depends on the eventual disposition of Kashmir. If the experiment of resolving the conflict over Kashmir is successful, the experience could be put to use in the Middle East.

To: Ilaine who wrote (120466)	11/26/2003 12:36:45 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Israel is not the only country where the tension between religious and secular control of the state is troubling, but it certainly has peculiar problems due to religious influence on the state that no other "Western" democracy has It sounds like you're thinking of Judaism purely as a religion, by analogy with Catholicism. That's not the way Judaism works, since unlike Catholicism, it's an ethnically based religion. The strain on Israel is not between being a democracy and a theocracy. There is only about 15% potential support for a theocracy, among the ultra-Orthodox, which in practice means no support, the state just throws them sops depending on their current political strength. The real strain is between being a Jewish state, i.e. a state for the Jewish people, and a democracy.