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Whose Peace Is It Anyway?? - Page 2


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It would be quite easy for the parties of the peace process to work out a peace agreement if the religious, moral and political concerns were able to be seperated and treated differently. However, these concerns are all present and affect how the parties interact. My next column will deal with this interaction.

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6.   Feb 18, 1998 3:13 PM
Alex,

The Gulf war was fought, in part, for oil, but that was not the sole reason. The US saw this as an opportunity to expand their interests in the region and felt this was an opportunity ...


-- posted by Lawhawk


5.   Feb 18, 1998 7:34 AM
Thomas Sampson

Oh, please. Saddam Hussein embodies a secular regime. Islam has got absolutely nothing to do with anything in the situation in the Gulf -- except insofar as S.H. has seen fi ...


-- posted by pseudoerasmus


4.   Feb 16, 1998 2:17 PM
Tom,

To address your first point, Iraq invaded Kuwait for one of several possible reasons; to expand and dominate the oil trade in the region and the world, to incorporate Kuwait into Iraq under th ...


-- posted by Lawhawk


3.   Feb 16, 1998 4:45 AM
It is my understanding that this Iraq thing started over the invasion of Kuwait, a holy war, in a sense. Saddam claimed that the Kuwait's people had turned their backs on the Muslim religion, by mode ...

-- posted by Tom


2.   Feb 15, 1998 1:10 PM
Lucee,

Israel was formed from the area known as Palestine as a result of two major events; the first being a vote by the United Nations in November 1947 and the second was a war that allowed the Je ...


-- posted by Lawhawk





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