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To: SilentZ who wrote (274642)	2/15/2006 1:46:43 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580613

To be fair, Jews were considered second-class citizens in Arab countries for much of that time, and endured much abuse. Fair enough. Probably minority groups throughout history have had similar experiences. I'm not a fan of the existence of a Jewish state, but there are something like 60 Muslim states, and dozens are ruled by Islamic law. Why not one Jewish state, especially when people there are free to practice whatever religions they wish? Yeah, I understand the desire, but of all possible locations, smack dab in the middle of a Muslim region and potentially incorporating the 3rd most holy site in Islam is just not the smartest place to put it! It's too late now, but why couldn't they just put it in New Jersey? :-) I'd rather just see a solution where the two parties were physically separated from each other for a while, say two generations. I agree. I think the wall they are building is a great thing. Hopefully 50-100 years from now they will be able to tear down the wall and 100 years from now wonder why it was ever put there. The wall idea (separate the two peoples until a few generations can die off) is basically the source of my potential solution 2 to the conflict (keep Israel as a Jewish nation, but exclude the holy sites and perhaps all of Jerusalem). As long as control of Jerusalem is not multi-ethnic the excluded ethnicities are probably going to have issues, regardless of the time that a wall is present.