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Thread #138030 Message #3158748
Posted By: GUEST,lively
22-May-11 - 01:30 PM
Thread Name: Obama's Middle East Speech & this September
Subject: RE: Obama's Middle East Speech & this September
"The dispute is not between them as religions, but between two peoples for whom the religious identity is a marker for which side you are on."
Arguably it has nothing to do with religion at all, but rather power granted by an outside group to a transplanted group over an indigenous group.
After all Catholics and Protestants have happily co-existed in Ireland in the past, much as Muslims and Jews have done elsewhere.