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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 11:11 AM
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86. The comparison between Israel
and virtually every Arabic nation I can think of is so specious, that it's a bore to refute.

Israel is not racially and culturally homogenous. Sorry, you can't make that claim about a country where over 20% of the population is not Jewish, indeed is largely of Arab descent. Can you think of one Arab nation, outside of Lebanon, that has a large minority religious population?


I posted an article about Israel building a Muslim Prayer Room at Ben-Gurion airport this morning. It is unimaginable that any Arab nation would recognize the religious needs of minorities in such a manner.

Now, I agree with you about the Fence, and, the annexation of land, the treatment of Palestinians in the OT, etc., but the insistance that Israel is just a Jewish version of Islamic countries is simply inaccurate in the extreme.
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