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To: bentway who wrote (10019)	3/13/2005 5:46:10 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361726

Well, let's be clear about at least a couple of things: the Jews who fought for the state of Israel, before and after it's initial creation, were not fundamentalists. They were zionists. And the Arabs who left Israel upon its creation were not Palestinians and they were not "displaced" as in "driven out." They fully expected that the surrounding states would immediately destroy Israel. When that didn't happen, they became political pawns who were deserted by their fellow Arabs and used ever since. The oddest thing about this situation, as you point out, is that the tourist dollars spent by Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, so necessary to the Israeli economy, are being handed over with smiles to the very people these Christians expect to be relegated to eternal damnation at any moment.