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Old 05-20-2008, 08:15 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by non sequitur View Post
If Israel weren't physically located in the heart of such a globally strategic area, would anyone give a shit about Israel? I suggest that if Israel and Madagascar swapped geographies, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict would never make the 5:00 news.
It goes well beyond geography. There are the religious connections as well as the collective guilt about all the Jewish deaths at the hands of Christians over the years.
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