----- 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.
