Replying to a message of PETER COGGON to ROGER NELSON:

 PC>> I still like Israel's getting into Fo ...title, but then
 PC>> only to blunt the reality of this hell that has been going
 PC>> on for long enough.
 RN>> 
 RN>> I don't think war in the Fertile Crescent will ever end as long as
 RN>> men live there.

 PC> How very true ....

 C>>> RN> You should read some of my mail.  (-:

 PC> Well I am reading it now...

 PC> Getting back to Israel and the middle east as a region, and it's
 PC> problems.

 PC> Can you imagine, the economic clout they would have, in tourism
 PC> if they ever could agree, just to put the religious bickerings
 PC> aside?    Last night, a friend of mine gave me a video from the
 PC> region, and explained just how dumb it all is, and how each
 PC> religion is clinging to this and that, not moving or giving
 PC> for the common good, and all their religious believes.

 PC> There is even a ladder or remains against a wall that is in
 PC> dispute, as celery fist fight over who can do what where ..etc.
 PC> Apparently the ladder dates from late 1800s.

 PC> Then I see celergy fist fighting over this or what which just
 PC> seems so stupid ....but so hot is the dispute and control.

 PC> No Peace .... never, and anyone living there, might as well
 PC> get use to it, and if they want peace.....eliminate the other
 PC> guy.   Might as well.   Bad to say, but it is just so tightly
 PC> jaggered for even a border let alone anything else, they might
 PC> as well decide it all by killing until only one group is left.

 PC> So much for religion and a deity that is suppose to practice
 PC> and encourage peace.

It's not just the Jews and Palestinians fighting there.  I've read that the various
Christian sects that have custody of at least one of the religious shrines in the
area often if not regularly come to blows over some real or imagined problem.

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