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To: neolib who wrote (200302)	8/30/2006 2:40:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Multi-state solutions were in fact not only discussed but actually put in practice in South Africa. Not really. The bantustans were not truly independent countries with full sovereignty. They were a barely useful fiction more than they where a real multistate solution or even an attempt at one.

To: neolib who wrote (200302)	8/31/2006 12:06:59 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

"Multi-state solutions were in fact not only discussed but actually put in practice in South Africa. I forget the total number of Bantustans, but on the order of a dozen or so. It failed, because the whites wanted the entire matrix of S. Africa for themselves, with blacks shunted off here and there. In Rhodesia, the whites went from 270K to something like 10K now, so effectively total migration out. That was the final solution." Perhaps this is Israel's future. I've had several Jewish friends that went to Israel for a summer on a kibbutz, and came back with no desire to become an Israeli. Nothing is really going to change the fact that they are surrounded by 100's of millions of Muslims that despise them.