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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (247700)11/8/2007 3:02:10 AM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
So Nadine. whos set of values are the absolute standard.....

I will vote for fine Protestant and Puritan values since we are americans... and i will tollerate no others.

Again.... philosophy is fine if you dont have to live in the real world.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (247700)11/8/2007 4:53:04 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
This is sorta interesting - makes it sounds like none of the average day to day Pals were really interested in my Pasreal idea.

I didn't even know that Palestinians could apply for Israeli citizenship. Can they??

Message 24033765

Thousands of Palestinians apply for Israeli citizenship

Intensive talks over division of Jerusalem has prompted its Palestinian residents to make a move once considered the ultimate treason

Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem calling to set up an appointment with the Interior Ministry to apply for an Israeli citizenship will discover the next available interview date is only in April.

In the months leading up to the upcoming Annapolis peace conference talk of a future division of the city has prompted a staggering increase in nationalization requests by Palestinians seeking to escape life under the Palestinian Authority.

Some 250,000 Palestinians currently reside in Jerusalem. Only 12,000 of them have sought to obtain an Israeli citizenship since 1967, an average of about 300 new citizens a year.

But over the past four months the Interior Ministry has registered an unprecedented 3,000 applications, primarily residents of the Arab neighborhoods unlikely to remain under Israeli sovereignty according to the political initiative currently on the agenda...

ynetnews.com

media.nationalreview.com



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (247700)11/8/2007 5:31:33 AM
From: c.hinton  Respond to of 281500
 
Nadine, i think it right to add that multiculturalism as a philosophy is a direct responce to the the disaster of World War two and the Nazi fixation on racial and cultural purity.

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As to morals...circumstances dictate morals.

eskimos leave their elderly out to die because the tribe cannot support unproductive people.

In the west people put their elderly in homes and their incapacitated on life sustaining machines in hospitals.

which is the more morally correct?