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To: Elroy who wrote (247441)	11/6/2007 9:52:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

However, that book, and the Leon Uris novel Exodus are it for my research on ME history! More than most, then... The Arabs found the actual version of events shameful to think about. Being pushed about by the colonial powers was bad enough, but being unable to destroy even a little gang of contemptible Jews! Unsupportable! Obviously the Jews couldn't have done it if they hadn't been supported by the Great Powers, or maybe the Jews actually control the Great Powers, yes that's it, that explains it, what could the Arabs do against such force? And so the thinking spun off into conspiracy land. Once you buy into the conspiracy, it explains EVERYTHING. It is far more comforting than trying to think about what the Arab world might look like today if they had even tried to come to terms with Zionists setting up a state in a lightly inhabited strip of provincial southern Syria, which is exactly what it was at the time to the Arabs, and just as unimportant as that sounds.