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To: Illbay
No, I am not saying that.

What I mean to say is that it is not unusual to find Israeli citizens who are of Palistinian or other Arabic heritage.

Israeli treatment of the Palistinians has been saintly compared to the treatment they have received many Arabic couuntries. It is my understanding that Israel has, in the past, allowed citizenship to Palestinians. How many and under what terms I cannot say.

I cannot back this up, but I seem to recall having read somewhere once that there are more Palestinians with Israeli citizenship than Jordanian citizenship, Saudi Arabian citizenship or a host of other Arab countries that use the Palestinians to fight a proxy war for them.

94 posted on 05/13/2002 5:42:36 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: El Sordo
Israeli treatment of the Palistinians has been saintly ...

Y'know, I keep hearing that in here, but it doesn't square with my personal knowledge. As I mentioned I have a friend, a Christian who is a Syrian Arab. In his village in the Golan, he's had friends, Christian and Muslim, who've had their homes destroyed because "they might be terrorists." All you have to do in Israel to be suspected of "maybe terrorism" is be Arab.

117 posted on 05/13/2002 6:56:17 PM PDT by Illbay
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