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To: NYer; Tolik
the newly elected pope Leo IV began the construction of walls around the entire perimeter of the Vatican, 12 meters high and equipped with 44 towers.

Today, most of Italians, with great support from their European brothers and one half of America, would declare this wall insensitive to the needs of the immigrant population. Shouldn't borders be open at all times, both to friend and foe?

5 posted on 01/05/2006 6:41:30 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking the keyword Israel.

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6 posted on 01/05/2006 6:50:38 AM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: TopQuark

bttt with a little history.


11 posted on 01/05/2006 7:24:24 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: TopQuark

The Muslim forays against Italy and the South of France are not Äncient History". As late as the middle of the 19th century, raiders from Algeria and Tunisia (The Barbarbary Coast) would snatch and enslave people fropm seaside towns, and in some cases, who were walking along the beach, often fighting pitched battles with the fleet and army of the Kingdom of Naples.


12 posted on 01/05/2006 7:25:06 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Democrat vote fraud must be stopped. Hello? RNC?)
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