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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (191559)	7/13/2006 5:27:27 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

However, throwing out the baby with the bath water by supporting a war of aggression against Israel by totalitarian minded religious fanatics is not the answer either. No one advocated the above. The policy recommendation, if you will recall, was to disengage the United States from the Israel-Pal-Arab conflict, not to support one side over the other. If they want to fight each other until kingdom come, let them. It's not our fight. Are you against diversity? No, I'm all for it. A recommendation to solve the Israel-Pal conflict that I've made in previous posts is to transform Israel and the occupied territories into one nation, call it Pasrael, grant citizenship to the appropriate Pal refugees, and encourage the Pasraels (which would be something like 40% Jewish, 10% Arab Christian and 50% Arab Muslim) to live together in equality and harmony with all citizens and religions given equal rights under the law. That's a very American values solution to their problem (which is not our problem). That approach, over the very long term, would have a chance for peace and development. Unfortunately, no one but me seems to want that approach, so it isn't going to happen. And Arabs expelled almost 1 million Jews from their countries and they had no where else to turn but seeking refugee status in Israel. In fact, the reality is that in Europe and other countries, they have tried to exterminate Jews, not just kick them out. It's the entire reason that Israel was founded.. The above is the reason I advocated granting all Israelis that give up their Israeli citizenship US citizenship, along with a generous resettlement stipend. Americans generally have positive opinions of Jews (as far as I know) - let them live somewhere people like them and where they can peacefully contribute to society, not where their neighbors hate them and want to destroy them. Seems like common sense to me..... Thus, I hardly believe that artificial Arab states, dominated by despots who have dominated neighboring tribes in their quest for power, have a lot of room to talk. Whether you think they have room to talk doesn't solve any problems, and doesn't eliminate the harm that comes to the US from supporting one side over another in the fight between Isreal-Pal, a fight which appears endless and is not an American fight.