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In article <JIME.92Apr12012706@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes:

# [Sorry about replying in many small snippets.  Blame my news software.]

# In article <1992Apr12.014433.29249@ennews.eas.asu.edu> makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:

# >   In article <JIME.92Apr10223708@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes:

# >   # >   # And in my admittedly insufficient reading, Jerusalem was free for
# >   # >   # worship to all faiths under British rule.

# >   # >	   Jerusalem may have been, but certain places outside of Jerusalem
# >   # >   were not.

# >   # Backpedaling.  So Israel is _not_ the first power to administer
# >   # Jerusalem and allow freedom of religious expression.  What were these
# >   # "certain places"?

# >	   Certain areas in what is now Judea and Samaria.  However, Israel
# >   is the first local non imperial "power" to allow freedom of religious
# >   expression.
 
# You sure can be vague when you want to be.  ("Certain areas" in this
# case means uncertain areas.)  I will take that as a sign that you
# don't know what you are talking about.
 
	It is not a sign of anything.  Jerusalem was the point under
discussion.  I was merelypointing out other areas in Judea and
Samaria.  I did not go into specifics because I did not find them
relevent.

# Now as for the rest of your claim, it is so restrictive as to be
# meaningless.  Jerusalem has been under the control of various
# non-local governments for centuries.  Just which government are you
# comparing the present Israeli government with?  Not the British
# government.  Not the Ottoman Empire.  Not the Crusaders.  Not the
# Byzantine Empire.  Not the Roman Empire.  Not the Babylonians.  Not
# the Assyrians.  Perhaps the ancient Israelites, who were local after a
# fashion, and were hardly religiously tolerant.
 
# You also seem to forget that when the Moslems took over Jerusalem from
# the Byzantine empire about 640 AD, one of the first things they did
# was to let the Jews back into Jerusalem.

	How petty can you get?  Fine.  I will amend my statement to be for
modern history.  Capish?
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David Makowsky
makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu