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To: marcos who wrote (163268)	5/28/2005 8:16:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Outright theft of this magnitude, in so central a place, will not be ignored, cannot ever be ignored, and you know this, michael ... you know that you cannot just shrug and say oh well we stole it now it's ours, flip the world the bird and ride off into the sunset Didn't stop the Chinese communists from doing EXACTLY THAT in Tibet, now did it? And it didn't stop the British and Hashemites from doing exactly that with the Turks, later installing the Hashemites as the rulers of Trans-Jordan and Iraq. Excludostaat wouldn't have been such a great idea even if there had been somewhere a 'land without people' on which to set it up ... Strangely enough, I concur with this. I'm no fan of creating political states based upon exclusivity. And Israel certainly falls within that criteria (or at least did at its founding).. But I don't see any reason to compound the problems of that region by trying to create a exclusionary Palestinian state which denies anyone who isn't Palestinian (muslim?) from residing there. At least with Israel, 1/5 of the population is non-Jewish, with full voting rights. I don't see any willingness to extend the same offer to Jews who wish to live in the West Bank, potentially under a Palestinian government. Hawk