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From: "marc lindahl" <marc@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [L-OT] Re: OT Goodbye


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> > From: LogicBaby <basharar@...>
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> > So, What do you mean?!! The Palestinians have creative places, films,
arts
> > and so on but they have brutal Military occupation and a raciest state
> > called Israel backed by US Tax money to deal with, they have apaches and
> > F-16 bombing there towns every night and every small town is cut from
the
> > outside world with big holes on the roads and military forces, how
creative
> > can you get? Its very simple Israel needs to Pull out of the west bank,
east
> > Jerusalem and Gaza in accordance with UN resolutions, Illegal
settlements
> > needs to go, very simple, but as long as there is no one to stop them
the
> > bloodshed will keep going and extremism will grow on both sides.
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> Maybe you're too young to remember that Yassir Arafat practically invented
> airline hijacking in the '70's.  Don't paint the Palestinians as innocents
> when they're not.  It's that type of black & white thinking that has
> permeated all sides of conflicts in the middle east for 1000's of years,
and
> obviously hasn't lead to any solutions.
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Arafat did popularize the terrorist method though it did predate Palestinian
terrorism.  There have been many periods of calm in the Mideast,
particularly when tolerant Sultanates ruled the area.  And when they weren't
thinking in black and white of course.

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