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The Palestinians I've known were Christians. I visited the Vatican with one of them. I lived in Saudi Arabia for nearly three years and became friends with some of them. I didn't care for the way they treat women but they were often nice enough to me, a man.

One of my trainees came in the shop behind me and poked me in the head with a gun and said, Dave, I'm going to kill you. I disarmed him without touching him up but I was the only American in the shop with six Saudis so I didn't shove the gun up his ass, I put it in a safe.

The next day Prince Turkey summoned me to his office after word went around that one of the Saudies tried to kill his trainer. It was his low IQ idea of a joke. He asked me how I wanted Ali punished. I told him that I didn't. He seemed relieved, I think he would have if I asked.

My Korean Taekwondo instructor was teaching rich and well placed children, including little Prince Turkey and requested that I go and teach some classes. The kids were a big slack and he suggested that I bring my daughters, red/black poom belt holders that were more skilled than me. Not fond out being shown up by girls they shaped you and we had some good classes.

My older daughter, just entering puberty was gazelle-like and was to do a flying over a row of chairs board break in a demonstration for the father Prince Turkey. They brought in someone from Riyad who could jump over a longer row of chairs.

When all is said and done, my experiences with people from the middle east have been mostly cordial and friendly. The exception being my kill the last Jew trainee that I developed a friendship with. He gave me his recipe for a fruit punch that included their frisbee bread (yeast) with the words, don't leave the bread over two days or it will be too strong for your children. How do you say this is my wine recipe without saying it's my wine recipe. ;0)

At any rate, people bring in religion to attract allies, but I think it is more about the bloody land grab. Leaving out religion and ethnicity grotesque overkill and settler activity is obviously a bad thing.

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