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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (190819)	7/4/2006 1:35:55 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You can't just talk about the US, that's my point. This is a hatred of the rise of the West and the corresponding fall in power of the Middle East; it gets focused on whoever in the West is seen as wielding the most power. That's the whole point. Israel from this point of view is seen as the tip of the spear, the thorn in their side. It's not a separate issue. This is nonsense. Israel is smack dab in the middle of Arabian land, you can't equate Arab hatred of Israel with Arab jealousy that Apple invented the iPod and Jordan didn't. The Middle East hasn't been "powerful" for hundreds of years. It's like claiming Italians hate Americans and other Europeans because of the fall of Rome - it's a silly claim. Are you going to claim Arabs hate Japan because it is so successful while they have been in decline since 1492? I hope not, because its a crazy claim. Arab/Muslim hostilities almost uniformly relate to land control, and for that reason you CAN separate the US from what you are calling the "west" - we got no borders with them, therefore they got no underlying reason to hate us.