time to experiment
Reader comment on item: Expert predicts more violence in Gaza

Submitted by Donald O (United States), Oct 1, 2005 at 17:22

the USA & Israel have been described as experiments in democracy along with France and lot's of other countries. I don't see the urgency, or any need to panic, now that Israel has realized (correctly) that it can't co-habitate with the ...Palestinians and is standing behind barriers/borders that it won't yield from. As far as the other democratic countries are concerned - they have a much bigger problem. Spain has recently been forced to deal with [literally] waves of africans trying to enter Spain [and perhaps stay]. This can happen in most European countries and they need to hold onto a strict formula if they expect to exist as unique cultural entities free of the Islamsts... The USA tries not to be undone by Canada's liberal immigration policies but has a suspicion that it isn't in the best interest [but is stifled by soft/crooked Politicians]. Liberal policies have almost neutered the collective ability to respond correctly to this threat. Only time will tell...

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