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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism Outrage
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 13:39:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 13:39:49 1986
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: the Arabs *ARE* able to solve the problem

Chedley Aouriri writes:
>> The problem with Chedley's viewpoint, I feel, is that he doesn't
>> recognize that the Arabs hold the key to stopping the problem.
>> In fact, the US doesn't have any alternative but to react with
>> condemnation (and possible military action) towards Arab terrorism.
>
>No ! I do not think that the Arabs hold the key to stopping the
>terrorists. I do think that they can slow them down, and hold their
>help and assistance to them. Why they do not do it? Because they do
>not agree with the US/israeli  point of view of the cause of
>terrorism. 

The Arab states could have solved the "Palestinian problem" years ago,
by spending a small fraction of their oil revenues on resettling Arabs
in other countries (or, for that matter, on the West Bank when that was
part of Jordan). Israel offered to absorb 100,000 Arab refugees if the
Arab countries would take the rest. Because the Arab countries refused
to accept Israel's right to exist, that offer was spurned.

Note that Israel absorbed, over the course of a very few years,
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Jews from Arab countries, who left everything
behind and came with nothing. If the Arab countries gave a damn about
their "brothers", they would have helped them 30 or 37 years ago instead
of leaving them to rot in refugee camps.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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