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To: marshmallow
The great irony of this conflict: two supposedly spiritual peoples fighting over that most materialistic of all possessions. Land.

Oh gee, so in order for the Israelis to prove their spirituality to you they should all abandon their country and walk into the sea.

27 posted on 12/07/2003 9:03:09 PM PST by Alouette (My son, the Learned Youngster of Zion)
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To: Alouette
Oh gee, so in order for the Israelis to prove their spirituality to you they should all abandon their country and walk into the sea.

No, no need to walk into the sea. But my essential point stands. This is a fight over land.

Once it was Palestine. Then it became Israel. Now the Palestinians want it to be Palestine again.

Both peoples consider that they have a God-given right to occupy this place, to the detriment of the other. Many religious conflicts have this essential form. They clothe themselves in a garb of religiosity and the combatants claim a Divine directive, when what is truly at stake is something completely worldly.

32 posted on 12/08/2003 5:55:13 AM PST by marshmallow
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