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Perhaps Israel can be convinced to give up its eastern territory (the West Bank) as an independent country, populated by a people of different ethnic and religious background who were unwillingly swept up into the formation of a new nation less than a century ago, when Saudi Arabia<\/a> grants independence to its eastern province (along the Gulf Coast), populated by a people of different ethnic and religious background who were unwillingly swept up into the formation of a new nation less than a century ago.<\/p>\n

Seems fair to me. But I don’t think the Saudis are liable to get behind the proposal.<\/p>\n

(Via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps Israel can be convinced to give up its eastern territory (the West Bank) as an independent country, populated by a people of different ethnic and religious background who were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/19\/round_up.html","url_meta":{"origin":2711,"position":0},"title":"Round-up","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Dec-02 1:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, let's turn down the Hyperbole Meter a tad as we consider the mass arrests of immigrants in California. 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