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To: neolib who wrote (200237)	8/30/2006 12:53:37 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Do you honestly think I'm incorrect? Yes. Your analogies are misleading at best. I repeat--read the history. Not just of Israel, but of what happened to the lands of the Ottoman Empire after WWI. Try reading Elie Kedourie, who taught at the London School of Economics for 40 years or so from the 1950s to the 1990s. Both his (short) book, Nationalism, which will give you some insight into the idea of nationalism and the origin of panarabism, and The Chatham House Papers, a collection of essays some of which are very much on this topic. Start with the last essay, then read two of the essays on Iraq, I forget their names offhand. It will give you some perspective other than the shallow Wilsonian "self-determination" perspective that you seem to accept without question (I don't mean to offend you when I say "shallow" here--it is a conventional all-too-common perspective that Americans and other westerners tend to have, but it is historically absurd, once you actually dig into history). A remedy for that would be to read the book I suggested last week, The Shield of Achilles.