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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:00 AM

"Building like maniacs"

Israel is redrawing its borders inside Palestinian territories to secure all of Jerusalem and put the issue beyond negotiation.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 05:57 PM

"Building like maniacs"

I hope you're going to run another more pro-Israel article about this subject. I was in Israel a year ago and both drove through the West Bank and looked at it from Jerusalem.

I don't know where you are situated, but in Los Angeles, the West Bank is about as far as Downtown Los Angeles is to East Hollywood or maybe in New York it's as far as Jersey City is to the lower west side across the river.

In other words it's maybe 3 to 5 miles they're talking about, not a whole county or country or any large amount of land. It's really out of proportion to the fuss the Arabs will make out of it.

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