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...most interesting points in your story about the Mumbai terrorist was what wasn't there: mention of Israel or Palestine. Many people theorize that all the world's troubles with Islamic fundamentalism are due to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Your article puts that theory to rest - Islamic terror is a cultural and religious predicament and not a territorial problem. Pressuring Israel to relinquish parts of its historical homeland will not solve the world's problems. Jonathan Patinkin, BETHEL, ISRAEL...
Remember the Dispossessed In his article "A Forgotten People" Andrew Lee Butters writes, "Like many Palestinians forced from their homes after Israel's birth, Sulhani still has his old house keys...'' [March 9]. Likewise, there are many Jews who were forced from their homes in the Arab countries who rejected the Jewish state and the two-state solution, and declared war on Israel. Many of those Jewish refugees still have keys and old, faded pictures of the homes to which they cannot return. However, the Jewish refugees from Arab lands who fled to Israel were absorbed and housed...
...biggest issue is the fight for the oil beneath Kirkuk, to the southwest, but even in Mosul, a Kurdish Commander in the Iraqi army expressed deep concerns. "Tomorrow," Col. Hazar, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion told me, "if [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki transferred an Arab battalion up here, then we could not trust these people because they would use violence against us." (See a video on Iraq, six years after the U.S. invasion...
...little surprised to hear this from Col. Hazar. I had spent the day walking through the Colonel's area of operations, in the mixed Arab-Kurdish (though mostly Kurdish) towns of Karach and Machmour, south of Mosul. Everyone I spoke with who was even remotely connected to the military or government assured me, at least to start, that in these areas, Arabs and Kurds were like brothers and had lived together for hundreds of years. "The problems are government problems," said Saber Sharif Ahmed, a Kurdish primary school teacher, before introducing me to the local secondary school teacher...
...these men, Peshmerga and the Sons of Iraq, the Kurds and Arabs alike, are technically members of the same national security force, with which the American military is trying to work closely. Back in the hallway with Ricky and the shaving medic, I thought about this as I interviewed an Arab soldier watching the proceedings. Pvt. Faisal told me that there would be no problems with the Kurds - "as long as they stayed in Kurdistan" - and that he was happy to see the U.S. leave...