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   On 7/25/2024 11:55 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > Chasseur  on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:09:36 -0400 typed   
   > in alt.survival  the following:   
   >> If the Palestinians had a state of their own with aknowledged borders,   
   >   
   > 	They effectively have had one.  The Government was dedicated to   
   > destroying their neighbors.   
   >   
   >> they and their neighbors would in all probability have to «behave».   
   >   
   > 	Just as the Government of Gaza has demonstrated.   
   >   
   >> With time, the Palestinians would   
   >> enjoy a better standard of living and, presumably, value and work at   
   >> preserving that newly experienced better standard of living.   
   >   
   > 	All Western "crusader" values, and not those of followers of The   
   > True Faith.   
   >   
   >> Palestinians would also have to support the fight against terrorism,   
   >   
   > 	Oh, they have.  It's just that they believe the true Terrorists   
   > are the West in general, and Israel in particular.   
   >   
   >> both inside and outside their secure borders. Militant Islam and its   
   >> imams and ayatollahs could be reigned in just as we reigned in militant   
   >> Christianity. Am I dreaming......   
   >   
   > 	Fantasizing is more the proper word.   
   >   
   > 	War against those who refuse to convert is part and parcel of   
   > Islam. "It's in the book."   
   >   
   > 	People will yammer on about a "reformation" of Islam, but never   
   > seem to consider that perhaps the "reforming" has already occurred,   
   > and the "radicals" won.   
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   >   
   >   
      
   I have heard that and might have to agree.   
      
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