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From: niko@houem.UUCP (N.TSOLAS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 11:51:56 EST
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>GOOD AND EVIL are NOT "RELATIVE" CONCEPTS!  And it is a little
>presumptuous to assume that the "Palestinians" will wait for
>2000 years.  Actually it is more than presumptuous, it is
>IDIOTIC!  Palestinians Arabs have no significant culture which can hold
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>them together for 2000 years.  Many peoples came and went in those
>2000 years, but aside from the dominant culture, ONLY the Jews survived.
You are confusing religion with culture. I can name many that
survived for thousands of years. Jews, as many other people, have
been influenced by many cultures. Even in Israel today they talk
about arab Jews and western (European) Jews. 
Palestineans HAVE their own culture. Whether it is significant or not,
neither you nor anybody else can judge. 

>And going back some 3500 years, Jewish culture is the only survivor
>in the world.  I know that other peoples have been around that long,
>but NOT their culture, unchanged.  Yes, it must be viewed with awe
                                                                ^^^
>and possibly as a miracle that Jews, with their Torah, survived
                   ^^^^^^^
>h-ll, fire, and high water for thousands of years and nobody,
>but nobody, can hold a candle to that fact!

I don't viewed it with owe and I don't believe in miracles. 
The fact that Jews survived is because their religion is different,
not better not worst, just different than others. Reacting to a
hustle environment forced them to stick together in order to survive.