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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (160950)	4/23/2005 1:31:21 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wouldn't have any objections to Jews settling in Palestine, subject to Palestinian law. This isn't the situation in the illegal settlements on stolen land. I might consider it insanely foolish, given the history and prevailing sentiments. I'm sure there would be some Israelis that would consider it a right granted by God.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (160950)	4/23/2005 3:14:19 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Ever stop to ponder this paradox?<< Well...speaking about a pair-a-ducks...<gg> What say you to this little....er...anomaly? agitprop.org.au Branko calls it a “shameful, Aryan kind of approach,” and asks, “Where were the U.S. and NATO for the past 40 years, when more than half a million Serbs were being killed or kicked out of Kosovo and out of Croatia?" At least this “Aryan” approach is consistent with U.S. involvement on the side of Albanians in the first place, who according to Dragnich have never made any secret of wanting a purely Muslim-Albanian Kosovo. He says he is not surprised by Slobodan Piliser’s story. “The KLA has always wanted a clean, ethnic-Albanian Kosovo,” he says. “Nothing odd happened here. The militant Albanians are very intolerant of anyone who is not Albanian.” In fact, the parallel runs deeper.When Germany overran Yugoslavia in 1941, Kosovar Albanian nationalists considered the Wehrmacht’s soldiers liberators. In 1944 the Waffen SS Skanderbeg division, named for an Albanian military hero and composed of militant Albanians, was responsible for killing half of Kosovo’s 550 Jews, along with thousands of Serbs and an uncounted number of Gypsies. That is why, given this record, Branko accuses organized American Jewry of hypocrisy. “Elie Wiesel and other prominent Jews called for the bombing and burning of Yugoslavia,” he says. “But today we don’t hear their calls to help the innocent victims of this tragic scenario.” Challenged on this point, Wiesel replied, “I will try to help Slobodan Piliser as much as I can, as well as I can,” and offered to use his contacts “at the highest levels” in Yugoslavia. Wiesel’s whole-hearted support for military intervention was seconded by the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman, as well as by other world Jewish organizations, all of which are today actively involved in relief efforts for Albanian refugees. In their eager scramble to help Muslims, these Jews have tied their hands to help their own. Nor do they voice an objection or lobby against the State Department’s anti-Yugoslavia, anti-Serb policy which is unwavering despite ongoing anti-Serb rampages and the Albanians’ turning on KFOR peacekeepers and UN workers. The apathy is especially out of place, given the parallels that abound between the Jewish and Serbian experiences. During the second world war, while the enemies of the Jews were doing their best to eliminate them, the enemies of the Serbs took advantage of the Nazi occupation to expel and slaughter the Serbs and snatch up some land in the process. Jews and Serbs fought and died side by side in Serb resistance units. Others died together at the Jasenovac death camp. Serbs hid, fed, housed and some even married Jews they didn’t know in order to save these strangers from death camps. This was rare among Nazi-occupied Eastern European countries. Now that the world has targeted the Serbs, Branko says, Jews owe it to them to look deeper. E'M' - I concur.