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To: RetiredNow who wrote (217773)	2/6/2005 1:26:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575498

Sure. There are settlements in the heart of Gaza and in the heart of the West Bank. It's unforgiveable and is one of the most legitimate reasons the Palestinians have to attack Israelis. However, even that is a shaky reason. Did you know there are large American settlements in Costa Rica as well as in some Mexican resort areas? But we don't get terrorized by Costa Ricans or Mexicans. We all get along. They enjoy the commerce that Americans bring and the Americans enjoy a beautiful place to live alongside a peaceful and friendly native community. Are you trying to do standup? Seriously, did you post the above with a straight face? ted

To: RetiredNow who wrote (217773)	2/7/2005 12:44:30 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575498

There are settlements in the heart of Gaza and in the heart of the West Bank. It's unforgiveable and is one of the most legitimate reasons the Palestinians have to attack Israelis. However, even that is a shaky reason. Did you know there are large American settlements in Costa Rica as well as in some Mexican resort areas? No there aren't! Thousands of Americans living in Costa Rica under Costa Rican laws and paying Costa Rican taxes is not the same as thousands of Israelis occupying land in the West Bank, with ISraeli police and under the Israeli legal system. You're being ridiculous here. d you know there are large Jewish, Puerto Rican, Italian, Irish, Arab, Chinese, etc. settlements in Ney York? Those settlements don't have to be defended by their respective countries, because those immigrants have found a tolerant and open culture among Americans. Everyone has learned to live side by side in the melting pot. Not always peacefully, but they have been assimilated successfully. Oh I see. You are in "la la fantasyland" now. If those Jewish, Puerto Rican, Italian, etc. people had shown up in New York with guns, kicked the existing residents out, and then set up their communities with zero approval of the US government (as the Israelis did to the Arabs in the occupied territories), they wouldn't be living peacefull side by side, they would be dead or in prison. The Palestinians can't allow Jews to live in their lands, not because the Jews are doing anything wrong by living there because those Jews DID PURCHASE those lands legally from Arabs, but because the Palestinians hatred of Jews takes precedence over any other thought in their heads. Well first of all the Palestinians DON'T HAVE ANY "LANDS". They are a stateless people. That's #1. And second of all you are making the same mistake as before with your reference to Muslims as opposed to Islamic Fundamentalists. Jews is one thing, the state of Israel is another, and you should not use the two words interchangeably. My discussion is about the state of Israel, not about people that are Jewish.