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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (123963)	1/29/2004 2:01:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Noel, there are suicide bombers murdering Israelis quite often. The threat isn't some abstract unrealistic idea which can be defended against. There is daily murder or threat of murder. Fear is a perfectly reasonable emotional response. Soon after fear comes anger. Then reprisal. That's how people work. It's not paranoia which is a word often used to dismiss a person's concerns or otherwise denigrate them. <Today the fear Israel manifests is irrational in that the foundation for this irrational fear, total destruction, does not exist since Israel has the means to defend itself. Note that I differentiate between Israelis and Israel.> A country can't feel fear, only individuals can, but apart from that, there is a reasonable fear of the total destruction of Israel, because as the murder rate continues and the difficulty and unpleasantness continues, Israelis might leave to live in other countries, with the state fizzling out, Moslems getting a majority and outvoting the Jews. That would be the end of a Jewish state and the introduction of yet another whacko Islamic Jihad place. I would not want to be a Jew if Islamic Jihad nutcase Moslems get the whip hand. Apart from that, fear is justified because surrunding countries can still launch military attacks and kill people, even if they can't at the moment have overall victory. Religion is a great curse on people. Chinese are fairly light on superstitious mania, as are Japanese. Now that China has ditched their fantasy belief in Mao's communist totalitarian nirvana, they are doing much better. Religion is a paranoia. Psychotic belief in supernatural spooks and fear of competing psychotics who believe in other brands of superstition. Religion, racism, tribalism, dominance hierarchy governmentalism [nanny statism]. The modern 4 horses of the apocalypse. Mqurice