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...militant Islam cannot now make do with dividing up the land of Israel between the Jews and the Palestinians.

...the current focus of hatred of Jews - opposition to the very existence of the State of Israel.

I don't agree with everything in this article, but the author raises some interesting points worth discussing.

1 posted on 09/11/2003 8:25:36 AM PDT by anotherview
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To: anotherview
Most conflicts in history do not end with a victory for one side and the end for the other.

If they don't they are simply left to fester and reappear later. The following seems to suggest that we should just let all present conflicts play themselves out.

Many more, even if they are less impressive, end with acceptance and compromise among the hawks, when the original fervor wanes with the passage of time, and the battle fatigue of both sides increases. Such a process may go on for a generation or two when the hostility is relatively new; and it may last for many generations when the rift is deep and long-standing. And again, the duration of a conflict does not determine its results.

In my opinion, that is a recipe for disaster. These anti-whatever movements are usually designed to direct the populations attention outward to some imagined enemy rather than focus on the problems created by the leaders at home. That was true of Nazism, Communism, the PLO, and now of Wahabbism. It has nothing to do with a "natural" hatred but is, instead, one created, magnified, and exploited by the state. The purpose is to keep those in power in their positions of luxury despite their failed policies.

2 posted on 09/11/2003 8:49:37 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
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I think that the simple explanation would be that the left always roots for the perceived underdog in any situation. It wasn't too many years ago that Israel was a darling of many on the left when it appeared that their very existence was threatened by a stronger Arab military, but as the balance of power has shifted in the mideast, so has the sympathies of the liberals.
3 posted on 09/11/2003 8:51:29 AM PDT by zacyak
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Moscow today is currently persecuting a bunch of Jewish millionaires with political ambitions. That too is anti-Semitism. But 10 years ago, who would have believed that Russia's wealthiest capitalists would be the Berezovskys, the Gusinskys and the Abramoviches? ===

Absolutely wrong. Those capitalists are simply a thieves. For that they are under fire. Unfortunately they very skilled in robbing but not in creation.

I wonder if all the article are same wrong in other points as in this one?
4 posted on 09/11/2003 11:24:51 AM PDT by RusIvan
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