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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (96232)	1/21/2005 7:17:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Nadine, perhaps, but if Israel is badly treated, it's in their interests to try to persuade people to make that change. It's somewhat equivalent to stopping Adolf and his supporters in the 1930s. Jews would have been very pleased to have that outcome. It would have been worth some effort. The absurdity of this comparison answers itself. Are you seriously trying to suggest that if only the Jews of Europe had explained nicely that they were good citizens and didn't deserve to be classed as untermenschen, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened? How ridiculous! Hatred of the Jews was the cornerstone of the Hitler's whole worldview. Talk about putting the responsibility on the victim instead of perpetrator! Israel presumably isn't full of corruption and feather-bedding. Perhaps similar institutional rules could be adopted in the UN. Israel could build those into a proposed constitution. Israel's got more than its share of both. But it's limited by being a democracy, with officials who are accountable to the electorate. This is the basic reform that any new UN needs - only democracies need apply.