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A confessional Israel
Reader comment on item: Israel's Domestic Enemy
Submitted by joe rose (United Kingdom), Dec 19, 2006 at 07:59
Dear Mr Pipes
What would be wrong with a non-confessional Israel, where all the faiths have equal rights and obligations?
In my view, a move towards such situation will do more for peace in the middle east than anything that has benn attempted in the last 50 years. Moreover, I believe that if the main reason of the west (USA & UK mainly) to interfere in the middle east were to spread democracy (this is at least the official noble cause for the Iraq busines), a genuine effort to equate the rights of all the people that leave in the Israel/Ocupied territories area would have had a much deeper impact in the region and would have empowered the pro-western factions of the arab public opinion.
Best regards
Joe
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| Expelling Israeli Arabs Would Spell the Destruction of Israel. [104 words] | Lewis Percher | Oct 20, 2011 17:25 | 150284 | ||
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| Stephen Phillips, not correct [54 words] | Joseph | Jan 28, 2007 04:58 | 69978 | ||
| The enemy within [23 words] | Octavio | Dec 19, 2006 09:09 | 69971 | ||
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| Israel [89 words] | Dr Aaron Refson | Jan 12, 2007 19:33 | 69967 |
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