>or take months.
>>Since that very day the Palestinians, and Arabs generally, had an axe to grind.
>>Israel's policy of more than 'an eye for an eye...' has been practised since that day.
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>>In those 58 years the Palestinians have been so grossly denigrated/emasculated that they have lost all hope of ever living like normal human beings. It is that condition that Israel's 58 years of sanctioned terrorism has reaped.
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>The problem with these two paragraphs is that the Arab nations surrounding Israel attacked the very day Israel became a nation. What was their excuse then?
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>Also, why is it Israel who has denigrated and emasculated theses people? What about the Arab leaders who told them to leave their homes (where they could have become Israeli citizens) in 1948, and allowed them to live in refugees camps all these years. In the same time, Israel has absorbed a couple of million people, many coming from real poverty, and integrated them into society. Why haven't Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the other surrounding countries done the same?
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>Tamar

I've often wondered why so little of the wealth from oil has been used to help the Palestinians.

Nick Mason