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[A Black Falcon]

First, the Dome of the Rock is Islam's third most holy site after Mecca and Medina. Remember, its got a connection to Mohammed... I don't remember what, though.

Fundamentalists of any stripe are just as bad, but Christian fundamentalists have no power. They are the guys who shoot their mouths off and make asses of themselves, but they are in little position to actually cause trouble. The days of popular Christian fundamentalism are dead many long years.

True... they have no power other than making idiots of themselves on national TV.

As for Israel, the Jews wanted a homeland, which is a resonable request... and Israel is the most obvious place for one... and once the British agreed it was a done deal. Now, if the Arabs had just accepted it and agreed to take in the Palestinians there wouldn't have been a problem. Look at Jordan (which, by the way, was part of Palestine under British rule). Its 80% Palestinian refugees... but do they intergrate all of them fully in the society? No. Many are still in camps. Same in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt... the Arab world's hatered of Jews and refusal to accept the obvious has caused this whole problem.

At this point, peace looks so unlikely... what with people in control of both Israel and Palestine who have no intrest in real peace... and its too bad. The situation is so bad, and its causing so much unrest in the middle east (it really is at the core of the whole problem of the Arabs hating us) that we REALLY must do something... sure we may fail like Clinton did, but at least we can try...