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• Monday, January 5, 2009 11:12 AM

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  Israel can continue its cruelty and brutality only for so long. Their success has relied on the inability of Arabs to agree on pretty much anything and the depravity of their leaders and most Sunni fundamentalist ideologies. The Israeli belief that they can dominate their neighbors via military force is based on the virulent racism that underlies Israeli culture and politics, and the inability of Jews in Israel and America to combat the pervasive extremist ideologies prevalent within their community. The Arabs will not remain asleep and ineffective forever, and they will never give up Jerusalem or have their will broken by Israel. Someday, they will learn how to translate that will into action. That's how it has also worked. Hezbollah represents the bare beginnings of Arabs awakening to their potential, one which will likely take some generations to fully develop. The large technological advantage Israel enjoys at the present time is one that can be easily negated with concerted action by the Arabs such as supply interdiction, concerted action that they will one day be capable of. Israel's only hope for survival is to marginalize their extremists, acknowledge their crimes, and submit to a fair US-guaranteed peace with their neighbors. Absent that, it's only a matter of time before another Jewish exodus, one from which they will never return.

  —Duderino Read Duderino's other letters
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