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To: neolib who wrote (155875)	1/10/2005 4:10:31 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

"BTW, you often write about a three state solution in Iraq. What do you think of Turkey and Iran giving up some land to make a robust Kurdistan? I wish the world would work towards that goal." And syria too but not in our lifetime i am afraid. Best we can hope for is improved turk/kurd relations. As for terror, there is one thing that makes the Pal experience unique and it isnt opression by israel. Fellow arabs turned their backs on pal refugees after 1948. They were forced to live in squalid refugee camps. The jordanians and egyptians did little to improve conditions in the territories they controlled and King Hussein fought a war against the PLO himself when they decided Pals should rule jordan, a country they had a majority in. Now fast forward to the tsunami relief effort. If a tsunami hit Palestine I would bet that more aid would come from the US and Israel than from the arab states. The arab states used the Pal plight and the hatred of israel to placate their own people who were being abused by reactionary authoritarian regimes. Reminds me of the pre-civil war south when southern landholders played poor whites off against the blacks, so they never identified their true common enemy. mike