OFFTOPIC Israel and Arabs

> Carl >>
>
> If they would just learn to tollerate each other, the mideast
conflict would

It goes a little deeper than that. The Palestines are not citizens of
Isreal. They don't have voting rights. This was diliberately done,
because they are the clear majority of the population in the region.
If they were given voting rights the results would be handing over
power to the Palestines. This is what most Jews are afraid of in
Isreal. This is why they created these Palestinian States the way the
South Africans created the homelands for the blacks.

> 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

Actually the above method is worse than you think. If that policy was
organized, the net affect would be to solidify the differences and
continue segregation.

Bill