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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic tolerance (is not the subject)
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 12:20:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 12:20:49 1986
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: absorbing people

Farzin Mokhtarian writes:
>>From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
>> Ah. You mean they don't support the acts of the Arab countries,
>> which by maintaining a state of war with Israel and keeping the
>> Palestinian Arabs in refugee camps (INCLUDING 1948-1967) have
>> created this "Palestinian problem" you refer to.
>
>So the Palestinian problem will be solved when Arab countries absorb the
>Palestinians? 
>If it's that easy, why wasn't the jewish problem solved by absorbing them
>into other friendly countries? 

Well, Farzin, there ARE no friendly countries for the Jews, unfortunately.
Look at what happened in the Holocaust and you can see. The gates of the
world were shut to Jewish immigration.

Palestinian Arabs, on the other hand, are automatic citizens of Jordan,
which you may recall in is fact 77% of Palestine. Furthermore, the Palestinian
Arabs are linguistically, culturally and religiously the same as the Arabs
of Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and a dozen other countries.

By contrast, the Jews from the Arab lands were culturally very DIFFERENT
from the bulk of the original Israelis, who were from Europe. Yet they
were absorbed into the country. Sure there have been problems, but
Sephardic Jews in Israel today are unquestionably better off than the
"Palestinian Arab" refugees who have been left by their Arab brethren
to rot in refugee camps, instead of welcomed and absorbed as were the
Jews by Israel.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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