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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic tolerance (is not the subject)
Message-ID: <328@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 07:53:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 07:53:19 1986
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> 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? 
>     Farzin Mokhtarian  

Because there were hardly any "friendly countries" that were willing
to absorb them.  Today the US is willing to absorb the Jews but I for
one don't wish to be absorbed into a non-Jewish culture to the point
of loss of my Jewish identity.  How does Palestinian culture differ
from Jordanian so that an Arab whose parents fled from Acre will not
be content in Amman?  He might prefer Acre, but had King Abdullah
granted his parents *full* citzenship rather than confine them to a
refugee camp we might not have had a Palestinian problem today.  Same
goes for all the other Arab countries that kept their refugee brothers
and sisters in the camps.
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