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Thread #26425   Message #318944
Posted By: Bill D
14-Oct-00 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: Middle East Problems
Subject: RE: Middle East Problems
.....what comes to my mind is part of "The Merry Minuet"

"The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles

Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like anybody very much "

...if everyone keeps saying "I am right, they are wrong", it is hopeless...the disputed area is revered and held sacred by BOTH sides...if they cannot have a state which encompasses both sides and allows them to walk, work and worship side-by-side, then they are doomed to fight and hate. It is sad...it is unfathomably sad...but it seems to be, to quote Nietzsche, "Human...all too human"