Where is Islam in Israeli consciousness?

Submitted by deegee (Israel), Dec 31, 2005 at 04:47

You will look in vain to find any major Isreali politician: Sharon, Peres, Peretz, Netanyahu, Lapid, Beilin, Olmert, who has ever mentioned Islam - moderate or otherwise as a problem. They all see the problem as a local territorial dispute somehow divorced from the dynamics of the surrounding Arab world and aggressive religion.

WHY?

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