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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo)
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Subject: Re: Apartheid on the West Bank
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 08:39:17 EST
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> I don't think any speculations about supposed Arab characteristics
> are any more helpful than any other prejudices.  I don't subscribe to
> any.  The problem, however is that the Arab goverments not only tolerate
> PLO terrorism, they actually encourage it and aid its perpetrators.
> Yes, this is stupid and short-sighted (not to mention immoral).
> They would be so much better off to look for peaceful alternatives.

The US government not only tolerates Nicaraguan contra terrorism, but
actually encourages it and aids its prepetrators. The same can be said
of Afghanistan mujahedin, Angolan SWAPO, etc. Would that justify a 
statement similar to those made about Arabs concerning Americans?

Thedefinition of terrorism, and justification for supporting it, is highly
flexible. Those who are on our side are democratic freedom fighters. Those
who are not are bloodthirsty murderers.

To get back to the original argument: were Israel to annex the West Bank,
would that make the Palestinians Israeli citizens? If so, would they not
have a majority of the vote (assuming they were to vote as a block)?
Should Israel, then, limit their voting rights, thereby assuring it
remains a Jewish state? If it does so, does that not violate the principles
of democracy that Israel is founded on? And does limiting the rights of
a subset of its citizens, because of their race, not put Israel in a
position similar to that of South Africa, or of the US prior to the Civil
Rights and Voting Rights acts?

I think these are good questions, that are not well served by inflammatory
comments on supposed Arab savagery.
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