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To: neolib who wrote (225467)	3/28/2007 8:27:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

An excellent example. Most of Europe is now, finally, back to having their own governments. Sure there were some significant population shifts in eastern europe, and europe has always had smaller pockets of ethnic groups lumped into bigger countries. Imagine instead if France & Britain were currently ruled by Germany. Who has to imagine? I can look at the EU, a most undemocratic institution. But the point remains, millions of people got shifted after WWII (think of the Germans of Konigsburg and East Prussia and the Sudetenland), but not one of them is sitting today as a "refugee" in a "refugee camp" with their descendents on a UN stipend. Europe reacted quite differently from the Arabs. There are hazards in being a rich foreigner, if you buy land in a country were most of the locals cannot afford to. One can protest that this should not be the case, but unfortunately, protesting does not change reality. One can acknowledge the reality without giving some award of moral superiority to the murderous locals, which seems to be the current fashion regarding the Arab/Israeli conflict. That I can protest as an excercise in muddle-headed appeasement.