<...Israeli author Israel Shamir, writing in the Russian Israeli publication RI in December 2000, says that Israelis "are taught they belong to the Chosen People, who are Uber Alles. They have been indoctrinated in belief that the Gentiles are not fully human, and therefore can be killed and expropriated at will." And the U.S. Jewish observer Eduardo Cohen says that "traveling through Israel I encountered a deep, widespread and racist contempt for Arabs," based on the belief that Arabs "didn't share the same faculties of thought and reason that 'civilized human beings' possess"

You might note that these are Israelis and Jews writing these opinions, however screwy they are. To the best of my knowledge, neither of these people, particularly Shamir, who lives in Jaffa, has been shot in the back of the head by the Israeli government and buried in a shallow grave. Nor have any others of the many Israelis expressing the desire to see a Palestinian state.

Please let me know when you locate an article by a Palestinian living in the "Palestinian" section of the Mideast which supports peace with Israel and Israel's right to exist, or anything remotely pro-Israel. By a person still above ground.

Probably says more than anything else about how the two cultures and political systems differ at their roots.

It is also worth noting that there are Arab members of the Israeli Knesset, which represents a broad range of beliefs to put it mildly. How many Jews are in the PLO? Or hold important positions in ANY Arab government? Hell, how many Arabs are living somewhere where there are elections?