From: tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock)
Subject: Re: Israel's Expansion II
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In article <93111.225707PP3903A@auvm.american.edu> Paul H. Pimentel <PP3903A@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>What gives Isreal the right to keep Jeruseleum?It is the home of the muslim a
>s well as jewish religion, among others.Heck, nobody ever mentions what Yitza
>k Shamir did forty orfifty yearsago which is terrorize westerners much in the
> way Abdul Nidal does today.Seems Isrealis are nowhere above Arabs, so theref
>ore they have a right to Jerusaleum as much as Isreal does.

If "ownership" were rightly based on "worthiness" there wouldn't be any owners.
What is your point?

As I understand it, Israel's "claim" on Jerusalem is based on 1) possession,
and 2) the absolutely CENTRAL (not second, not third) role it plays in jewish 
identity. 


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