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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (216847)	2/2/2005 2:04:45 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572154

Yeah, that's it. No one is really calling for the destruction of Israel and the "reunification of historic Palestine." It's all about fighting for freedom and religious tolerance, the same concepts that countries like Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon are supposedly awash in. ?? What's the value of your sarcasm? The question was "Why is their hostility in Arabia toward Israel?", right? I repost (for the 3rd time) my understanding below. You're understanding is different? If so, please elucidate (how's that for vocabulary!?). I thought the hostility was fostered because Israel is an "Jewish" state, with all the implications that that implies, and not a country that treats all religions & ethnicities the same. A Jew in Argentina can move to Tel Aviv and gain citizenship without difficulty, but a Muslim in Gaza can't. And 30 years after this "Jewish" state was plopped down in the middle of predominantly Muslim Arabia, it annexed parts of Jordan, Egypt and Syria in the 1967 war. Furthermore.......As I posted on an earlier post, it makes very good American value sense to create a new country (temporarily called NewCo) which incorporates pre-1967 Israel, the Golan Heights, the Gaza strip and the West Bank, and its citizens are all the residents of those geographies (which means current Israelis and Palestinian refugees) and then let them live in a society which gives one man one vote and is blind to its citizens ethnicity/religion. Don't you think? Of course, a negative spin on that idealist country would be to say that it calls for the destruction of Israel and a reunification of Palestinian territories. A positive spin is it gives each person in that geography equality under the law, and is based on very American values. So my basic conclusion is....yeah. I don't understand how "all men are born equal" America supports the idea of a "Jewish" country. A "Jewish" country implies Jews get something non-Jews don't, and that is a fundamentally unAmerican view.