----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Sloan II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Child Soldiers RE: This week in the Middle East


> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> > Letting Arabs into the country does not mean Israel can no
> > longer consider itself a Jewish homeland. An increasing
> > number of people in The Netherlands are of non-Dutch origin,
> > but that does not stop the Dutch from considering themselves
> > Dutch.
>
> Yes, but did the non-Dutch immigrants spend their entire lives
> growing up with anti-Dutch propaganda telling them that the
> only good Dutchman (or woman or child) is a dead one?

And, then again, there's the numbers involved.  The Palestinians consider
Israel as Palestine.  It will be more than 50% Arab.  The day that the
Netherlands opens its borders to all comers, and the Dutch show a
willingness to become less than 50% of the voting population, I'll be very
impressed.

Dan M.

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