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In a message dated 08/04/2001 2:58:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Despite my last name, I feel that the arabs have let the Palestinian people
suffer for arab gain. I do have a heart for the Palestinians, but don't see
it as the Israeli's fault. The Jordanians, and other arab countries, could
have absorbed these people decades ago but refused to do in order to create
this very problem. The other arab nations do not want, and never did want,
the nation of Israel to exist. >>
No matter what anyone's name is or their cultural heritage, an unbiased view
is required. It is one of the most difficult challenges there is. No matter
who we are, we all fall into some kind of groups--age, sex, religion,
politics are just a few. It
takes some long meditation sometimes to see the other side. And then as one
member of a group that I am part of says, "The other side has another side."
The situation in the Middle East is not the fault of the Israeli, but it is
not the fault of the Palestinians either. As I see it, the fault lies in two
places. First of all the bad consciences of the allied leaders at the end of
WWII and then in the decisions of some highly placed Israeli leaders who
decided that they were not going to share the homeland they had finally
gotten their hands on. Different religions, tribes, and cultures have
existed side by side in the area that is now Israel since the beginning of
time, sometimes under the yoke of conquerors, sometimes as ruling, sometimes
as subject factions. Today's politics do not seem to allow such
co-existence.
As for the "arabs" of Jordan and other places taking in the "arabs" of
Palestine. That is not realistic. Would you expect the United States to
take in the population of Canada or vice versa if say China took over one or
the other of those countries tomorrow and said to the present population, "We
don't want you here."?
The "arabs" as you call them are not all the same religion. Many are
Christian (but of many different types of Christian worship) and the Moslems
may be any one of several Islamic factions. They do not necessarily speak
the same languages. Even in Turkey, it is common for one small community to
have four languages present. And little, money-strapped Turkey was one of
the few places where the Pesmergah, Kurdish refugees from Iraq, were welcomed
and provided for. Would Mexico welcome the population of Nicaragua? One
country cannot take in the population of another just to make things more
comfortable for a take-over.
I see no "good" resolution for the situation in Israel. The Israeli are very
determined, very powerful and they have powerful friends. They will win, and
the Palestinians will gradually cease to be. They cannot be absorbed or even
allowed to exist. The terrible things that are happening to the Palestinians
will not stop until there are no more Palestinians or the small remnant of
them who survive will exist as the Ainu do in present day Japan--a kind of
quaint reminder of another time. One cannot blame the Israeli for their
actions in this matter any more than one can blame the citizens of the United
States for taking their country from the Native Americans who were its
citizens when their ancestors landed on these shores. This kind of thing is
the normal human endeavor. We know that power is not going to be shared.
What actually bothers me is the vilification of the Palestinians. To hear
insults heaped on a people whose main flaw is that they have been relieved of
their country is a hard thing to countenance. To know that the torture and
torment of these people brings pleasure to others is even harder to endure.
Life has always been and will always be a brutal struggle. The strong must
win. It is not necessary to enjoy the defeat of the vanquished. Prudy
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