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By PHILIP OCHIENG  (email the author)
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Posted  Monday, October 26  2009 at  00:00

As the Khazari writer Betty Caplan suggested in a Nairobi newspaper recently, even the Khazari State of Israel — if it tried to live less by brawn and stomach and more by brain and heart — would be admitted into the Levantine comity of nations sooner than it thinks.

But, even if we agreed in principle to repatriate whole ethnic groups to the native lands of their eponymous fathers, exactly where would we begin and end? In Libya?

Indeed, exactly who would these “we” be? Where everybody is guilty, how can there be a “we”?

Ali, Isaac, etc: Please reduce the capped words to upper-lower case but retain the italics.

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