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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
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Subject: Re: Absorbing Palestinians into Arab societies
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 22:52:22 EST
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Subject: Re: Absorbing Arab Palestinians into Arab Societies

abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles (Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ)) writes:
  
> It seems to me that "friendly" is a key word here.  Until reading
> this comment, I had always assumed that Palestinian Arabs were
> indeed viewed with reasonable amounts of friendship by other
> Arab people because of a similar culture.*   However, it is certainly
> NOT true that European countries viewed Jews with friendship,
> in spite of nearly 2000 years available to reach an accomodation.
> If Arab Palestinians cannot be assimilated into the neighboring
> Arab countries, I would interpret this as well as evidence for
> the unfriendliness of those societies towards Arab Palestinians.
   
I think we agree on this point. I don't think that all Palestinians can be
absorbed into the Arab societies successfully. 
    Farzin Mokhtarian