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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Lynda wrote:

> The problem with Dershowitz's "version" is that he chooses to believe that 
> it all started with the two Israeli soldiers
Maybe it all started with this, the fact that the modern map of Israel 
is so much larger than ancient Judaea:

http://www.watton.org/clipart/general/map1.gif

If you look at this map of Judaea, you'll see that the "West Bank" was 
wilderness.  It also included none of the southern desert.  It just 
seems to me that it would be possible to give the Palestinians all this 
land which wasn't even part of the ancient land, or at least enough to 
connect Gaza with the West Bank, without removing any significant part 
of what was actually (long ago) Israel's.

Bill

P. S. -- Don't you just hate those modern java-based webpages, where the 
URL doesn't change when you load in the pictures?  Fortunately this 
isn't one.  These days (of our being able to send each other links to 
specific images) are numbered.