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Originally posted by Spanky
My personal experience (which is not a scientific poll) is that I have never met an Arab that thought Israel had a right to exist. That includes Christian palestians from Israel and Lebanon, and coptic Christians from Egypt. I mention them because before I met them I always assumed Christian Arabs would be more sympathetic to the Israeli cause. I have lived all over the world and worked and socialized with a lot of educated and affluent Arabs and they all have the same opinion. Arabia may not exist as a political reality but it is a reality in most Arabs minds. Arabia runs brom Baghdad to Morrocco and Israel is occupying a center portion of it. As most would say, "the Zionist are occupying the heart of Arabia".

I always thought that Moroccan royalty was somewhat sympathetic towards Israel, but my landlord in Law school was a Morrocan prince, and his whole familly looked forward to the day that Israel dissappeared. Arabs don't seem to agree on much, but that is one thing they all seem to agree on.

I now have many Persian employees, very well educated and seemngly rational, but they all think Israel has no right to exist and needs to go at the earliest possible convenience. So it also seems that the muslims off the world don't agree on much, but they all agree on the Isreali issue.

The Arab people (and Muslims) may be forced to to accept the reality of Israel, and they may even acknowledge it in treaties, but in their hearts they will always want it gone.

If the middle east became truely democratic and responded to its people wishes, I would believe they would all band together and take out Israel. The only thing that stops them from doing that is that they are all autocratic, are divided have other agendas and don't care what their people think.

If people have had a different experience than me, by all means, let me hear about it.

You really are a moron aren't you?

I would suggest you talk to more Arabs and Persians.