[Bill Haywood]

Goater,

I think our conversation would go fairly predictably from here on. We will keep interpreting things differently because of a fundamental disagreement over the source of Arab anger.

You attribute Israel expanding to Arab hostility.

I attribute Arab hostility to Israel expanding.

You see it as exploding in 1948 out of some senseless Arab refusal to accept Jews in the neighborhood. You believe Israel expands mainly as ad hoc security measures against annihilation. I see Arab hostility developing since 1890 because of constant loss of land to the Yishuv, with dramatic losses in 1948, and ever since 1967.

To me, it's a simple, ancient story of cowboys vs. Indians.