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To: skinowski who wrote (192869)	7/24/2006 9:37:15 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Comparing a (hypothetical) dissolution of Israel to Czechs and Slovaks going their separate ways is... pardon me, silly. It would certainly be a bloody process. Maybe it would not be a wholesale Holocaust, as many imagine, but it would be... harsh and bloody. The point is that removing/changing Israel does not require all the Israelis do leave or die. How about if Israel were to stop being the "Jewish homeland" and were the homeland for people in the ME that wanted development, peace, and harmony for all people regardless of their ethnicity and religion? Jews from Argentina no longer get a free pass to immigrate, but productive people from a mile down the road would have the possibility made available to them. It could grant citizenship to the best of the best of the refugees - the doctors, lawyers, well educated and wealthy that had something to bring to the country (the same way Canada sort of sells citizenship to anyone who can invest $XX thousand dollars in the country). This country could express its long term goal (say 20-40 years, after the current crop of rebellious fanatics dies off) of reuniting the partitioned land into one, multi-ethnic country, with the understanding that it is a long term goal to nationalize and integrate the appropriate refugees (whoever that is) into the country. In other words, rather than Land for Peace, Citizenship for Peace in the reunited land. Of course it should change its name from Israel, which has huge Jewish religious connotations, to SuperCountry (or whatever). That would effectively wipe Israel off the map, as well as offer a better life for the Palestinian refugees that want it, as well as offer a model country for the pathetic region rather than one which grants citizenship to outsiders over the people that live there because the people that live there had a non-Jew mother.