Ray Scupin, who forwarded the following link to me, writes, This is a message from my friend=A0Laurie King-Irani, an anthropologist at the University of Victoria in Canada. Laurie is fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic and did research on the Palestinian-Israeli ethnic and religious conflict for her PhD directed by Michael Herzfeld now at Harvard.=A0 She has close friends who are Israelis and also Arabs throughout the world.=A0 Laurie wrote a chapter on the Middle East for = my race and ethnicity textbook.=A0 She was also a journalist in the Middle East before going into anthropology and was an editor for the Middle East Report, a publication read widely by specialists in the region.=A0 She is married to my friend George Irani who is a Lebanese Christian who also did his PhD at Harvard in international relations. =A0 As she indicates her op-ed is a bit over the top, but it is=A0does = invoke some very strong emotional issues and critical thought..=A0 http://electroniciraq.net/news/1484.shtml John L. McCreery International Vice Chair, Democrats Abroad Tel 81-45-314-9324 Email mccreery@xxxxxxx >> Life isn't fair. Democracy should be. << ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html