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Originally posted by CDSmith@Nov 29 2003, 02:14 PM
Think of the commerce that could go on between Israel and it's hostile neighbors, if only they would take a page from our book. We've got history, remember the war of 1812? We all seem to have gotten over it.
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You are forgetting that Islam will not permit Jews and Isreal to exist in the region side by side. Isreal exists today because of its own military might and the support of the United States. Without either, every man, woman and child would have been slaughtered long ago.
You dont have deep rooted ethnic and religious hatred between the US and Canada where the very force binding Canadian society is the idea that all Americans must die and Canada is involved in a "holy war" were "victory" and gaining entry to "paradise" means giving your life trying to kill Americans until all Americans are killed and/or expelled from America.
There are no parallels between historic differences concerning US/Canada and "getting along" that apply as useful analogies to the Middle East and Isreal.