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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (16774)	5/31/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Nancy, as you know the issues about Israel are something we disagree about, and I have no desire to get into a big fight about it. I do know that the Palestinian people, who were living peacefully in their homes, tending their orchards, rearing their children, tending their livestock, going to university, etc., had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. The reason many of them wear big keys around their necks at demonstrations is because they symbolize the day that they were forced to lock up their houses and leave, to go and live in refugee camps in Jordan. I would add that they are not allowed to possess guns, although most of the Israelis around them are armed at all times. If you can live with the Israeli army firing live ammunition at crowds who can only throw rocks, and killing small children with rubber bullets, what can I say? I know you are a very good person at heart, but I think you have heard a lot of the most radical Zionist propaganda, and may not even understand facts about the Israelis torturing the Palestinians when they arrest them, or the Palestinians having almost no civil rights, or the lands that are still being stolen from them as we speak, as the settlers try to grab as much territory as they can. Before 1948, the Palestinians were welcoming of the Jews, who they considered their brothers. Obviously, having your country snatched away doesn't feel very good, and is what starts a terrorist reaction. Are you aware that whole villages of Palestinians were massacred to scare and intimidate the others into leaving? That Israel is constantly reprimanded by international groups for human rights abuses against the Palestinians? What can the good be in that? I think it leads to horrible karma for the state of Israel, since two wrongs do not make a right. I would have thought and hoped that the Jews, knowing the full horror of the concentration camps, would have acted in ways that were above reproach after the war. I am really disappointed that they have not. How can you build a country on another nation's sorrow and loss? How can you, Nancy, knowing full well how terrifying it is to be attacked and fear for your children's lives, not understand the sheer horror of the lives of the Palestinians in Israel?