OFFTOPIC Israel and Arabs

In a message dated 2/27/01 10:50:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Ravenart@... writes:

<< Plus, there's a cultural conflict between more advanced
secular jews and country, tradition-bound arabs. So with this tension, the
early hope for peaceful conhabition of semtic people fazed in face of
growing
conflict. That conflict reached new pitch when the Allies won the Great
War,
and the Ottman Empire was divided between British and Freach Mandate who
want
to keep their dying empires alive with a lot of sneaky deals. It was at
this
time, that the powerful governments started getting involded and turn a
arguement into outright fighting with their ruthless polcies that do nobody
a
favor. Then came the World War 2.

The botton line, the dream of peaceful and just society for all died and the
result was a cold war with hot flashes once in a while.

Carl >>

If they would just learn to tollerate each other, the mideast conflict would
be at an end. The idea of enshrining a religion in the state governing
apparatus is a bad idea. A solution would be to have a secular state and only
accept immigrant ethic groups in proportion to those ethnic groups that
already live there. Call it the State of Israel-Palistine, the Arabs would be
free to call it palistine and the Jews would be free to call it Israel.
People can then live where evr they want to without fear of molestation and
no legally segregated neighborhoods. Jews aren't persecuted much anymore
except in Arab states, and they don't need a homeland where they get
automatically accepted as immigrants. Israel-Palistine needs a secular
government where religon is kept separate and the government doesn't shove a
particular religion down someone's throught, the muslims in particular have
difficulty with this concept, their clerics seem to feel that it is their
divine right to govern and make laws for their people without getting elceted
by them, we must disabuse them of this notion.

Tom