re unconventional peace proposal in article c un y jn apollo hp com goykhman apollo hp com red herring writes in article igc apc org center for policy research cpr igc apc org writes from center for policy research cpr subject unconventional peace proposal a unconventional proposal for peace in the middle east by elias davidsson having stated my assumptions i will now state my proposal a fund should be established which would disburse grants for each child born to a couple where one partner is israeli jew and the other palestinian arab the emergence of a considerable number of mixed marriages in israel palestine all of whom would have relatives on both sides of the divide would make the conflict lose its ethnical and unsoluble core and strengthen the emergence of a truly civil society the existence of a strong mixed stock of people would also help the integration of israeli society into the sounds just like a racial theory that hitler outlined in mein kampf someone else said something similar i will not comment on the value or lack of value of elias s proposal i just want to say that it is very distressing that at least two people here are profoundly ignorant of nazi racial doctrine they were not like elias s idea they were more like the opposite nazis believed in racial purity not racial assimilation an instructive example is the nazi attitude to gypsies according to nazi theoreticians gypsies were an aryan race they were persecuted and in huge numbers murdered because most european gypies were considered not pure gypsies but mongrels formed from the pure gypsy race and other undesirable races this was the key difference between the theoretical approach to jews and gypsies by the way it is also true that towards the end of wwii even the purist gypsies were hunted down as the theory was forgotten brendan email bdm cs anu edu au
