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To: Non-Sequitur
Both sides want the other side to disappear.

A more realistic paradigm,I think, would be that the Arab nations are a pack of dogs while Israel is a porcupine.
The porcupine simply wants to be left alone; but the dogs just cannot do that -- the mere presence of the porcupine is too great a provocation to the dogs. They simply cannot control their urge bark, yip, threaten, snarl, and, occasionally, try to take a bite (only to get grievously hurt).
The porcupine, if left alone, would pose no threat to anyone whatsoever.

Israel has no designs whatsoever on any Arab territory; but if the Arabs start another war, they need to be prepared to lose some more.

10 posted on 08/24/2002 2:25:36 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Migraine
Israel has no designs whatsoever on any Arab territory.

That's not what that map seems to indicate.

12 posted on 08/24/2002 2:56:12 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Migraine
Israel has no designs whatsoever on any Arab territory

A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. I am certain that we cannot be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country and the region. - David Ben Gurion, in a letter to his son, 1937

They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldman in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-.

16 posted on 08/24/2002 4:20:11 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: Migraine
As fair and good an explanation as I've ever heard.
21 posted on 08/24/2002 5:31:31 PM PDT by knarf
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