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From: abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles (Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ))
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic tolerance (is not the subject)
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 16:15:21 EST
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>>>> If anything, they have gained contempt. Believe it or not, the Europeans
>>>> don't like bombs in their airports and the like.
> 
>>> No, I wouldn't either. But the Europeans know better than to just blame the
>>> terrorists. 
> 
>>"The Europeans know better than to just blame the terrorists."  Well then,
>>what or who DO they blame.
> 
>Many people see it as an expected consequence of the Palestinian problem.

The problem of three generations of Palestinian Arabs living in refugee camps
is what is being referred to here.  I seem to recall that many are living
in tents, with barely adequate facilities.  I definitely agree that these
conditions with no prospect for improvement could provoke people to violence.

But it isn't possible to place the entire blame for the conditions 
of three generations of Arab Palestinians on events occuring 
before 1950.  What about the refusal of their hosts in Jordan,
Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc., to offer them the hospitality
of those countries?  Granted, these people at one time lived in
areas which are now part of the State of Israel, but wouldn't it
be easier for them to stay where they are under more humane conditions?
This is particularly true in view of their apparent hostility 
towards the State of Israel.