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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (27946)	2/4/2004 9:57:52 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

"It's not just about our backing Israel. It's not just about the Brits backing Zionism, which heaven knows they did briefly enough. I do catch a kind of 'cosmic whiff' in his description of Jewish guilt there, that doesn't pertain to Brit creation of Jordan, or Egypt, or any of the states of the Modern middle east, or any of its colonies. This isolation of Israel for special treatment as specially illegitimate is functionally anti-Semitic, whatever its philosophical roots." Nadine, It is the old arabist state department view, based on the US "needing" the arabs--large population, land and lots of oil, with the israelis being the preverbial fly in the ointment so to speak. So to delegitimize israel is to give their view some moral tone that it lacks. I have heard the arabist argument made stressing oil and the israeli one made stressing democracy. Both have merit in terms of making a fp. But can you imagine the uproar if attacks were made on the very legitimacy of arab states as they are on israel? Mike