Re: [FT] New Israel - Re: National Differences (Long)

Thomas Barclay wrote:

>  _Something_ will have been learned from the
> > political history of Old Israel on Terra.
> 
> Yes. Don't ever allow yourself to be vulnerable. Don't ever forgive
> an enemy. Any don't ever trust an Arab (may not be true, but it sure
> seems that would be the lesson that many bitter survivors may come
> away with).

I doubt the Israelis would ever be so sloppy with definitions.	Druze
are active and patriotic citizens of today's Israel, and as such are not
exactally on good terms with their orthodox Muslim relatives (who
consider them heretics in the first place).  This is the only Arab group
which DEMANDED that they be conscripted like Jews are.	The Israelis
also get along with certain Bedouin groups, employing them as trackers
in their border units, and also with some Christian Arabs (damned
Monopysites! :)  

John M. Atkinson