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Old 09-24-2007, 03:45 PM   #86 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by baloney_detector View Post
Perhaps.

But hindsight doesn't work today too well at solving the Isreali-Palestinian problem, 60 years later.
True. But it doesn't harm to know the other side's point of view.

How many Americans know about the history of Israel? or the US backed installation of the Shah? or US aid to Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war? or why the Palestinian people are so pissed off?

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"