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Sent JP 10 Aug '04

The Snias Bus Fuss can be solved by posting a sign:  'Gentlement
are kindly requested to seat from the rear.' 

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As Emanuelle Ottlenghi pointed out (JP 28 July '04), Europe ( and
to the a lesser extent the USA, restrained by domestic political
pressure, predominantly Jewish) seems to have reverted, on a basis
of chronic anti-Semitism, and behind a particularized  pose of
self-righteous concern for human rights and civil liberty, 
to a pro-Arab/anti-Israel attitude, if not position.  That is
politically expedient:  thereby the EU curries favor with the Arab
oil cartel, and to appeases the demonstrated threat to their
countries of terrorist harassment.

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Howdy, Neighbors

Alex Weintraub writes (Modi'Info I:7) that Modi'in community
centers should look "more cosmopolitan and less like a shuk."  I'd
advise the opposite.  Lot of terrapolitans, if not cosmopolitans,
come to Jerusalem to walk through the old-world ambience of the
Arab shuk.  (For'sooth, EU foreign policy is built about that
theme-park romanticism.)  Relax control to grow a soul.

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The Post's weekly religion page is consistently uninspired, often
insipid, and frequently (eg 13 Aug '04) has an atrocious
illustration.

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