Another Tack: A beautiful friendship

The Jerusalem Post ^ | Jan. 20, 2007 | Sarah Honig

[cammie]

And here I was thinking that article was going to be about a teenage Muslim girl who wanted other Muslim sisters to be as free as she was, whose behavior and beliefs indicated that there was a new generation growing up with different attitudes and beliefs than its elders........

Not.

[Hildy]

I did too. I almost didn't read it...but I did and can only shake my head in sadness.

[LiberalBassTurds]

This story is the reason old sayings become old sayings:

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Blood is thicker than water.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Our naive Jewish friends. When will they learn. There was never hope for a wonderful friendship here. Her daughter just didn't dig deep enough early enough.

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[Cyclopean Squid]

Sad. You'd be surprised (or maybe not) how many times friends say everything would be peachy in the Middle East if Israel just went away.

[IronJack]

You'd think that only if you believe in fairy tales.

All Arabs have to cling to is their hate. Israel is the focus of that hate. If, more than half a century after its founding, Israel still hasn't earned legitimacy in the minds of Arabs, in all likelihood, it never will.

[ishabibble]

I don't think it is really about the Israeli land anymore. In this "information age", any idiot with a computer can have a conversation with another idiot all the way across the world. Two teenaged girls can even strike up an online friendship, only to have the ugly truth destroy it.

People listen to MSM and believe that Israel is the problem and should just go away. Meanwhile, average people like a middle-aged woman who bought a PC to look at recipe sites(!), have gotten a real, real good look at the Muslims. Their word, deeds, atrocities, barbaric customs, and above all, their evil intentions against the rest of mankind.
The Muslims have the Internet too, and they have used it to learn to play the MSM white guilt game, the whinging liberal hoping to be eaten last game, and the hurry up and forget American Amnesia game.

I would say to your friends that everything would be just peachy if the Muslims went away. Permanently.

[Lorianne]

Extremely good article. Thanks for posting

[cammie]

Was the snark really necessary?

[ruthles]

It's been my understanding that the land Israel took over was just a barren wasteland, for the most part and it has been since the Jews have developed it that Arabs suddenly want to live there. Is that true?

[Kimmers]

That is my understanding also...now that it is a thriving area, everyone wants it.

[NHResident]

You'd be surprised how many American Jews hold that exact position - that's why they support JFnK, Hillary and the rest of Dims. If you pass any synagogue in mASSachusetts - just count the number of anti-Bush bumper stickers!

[rmlew]

Instead of being a Jihadist, she a leftist.
This is Third-worldism and anti-colonialism. Europeans are the bourgeous. Everyone else are teh oppressed.

This is the problem with Muslims. They are either Islamists who hate us, traditionailists who hate us, or leftists who hate us. There are only a few assimilated who want to be like us.

[IronJack]

Was the snark really necessary?

You mean the "fairy tale" remark? Yeah, that came off more insulting than I intended. All I meant was that those kinds of happy endings don't exist in a land as hate-torn as the Middle East.

[IronJack]

the land Israel took over was just a barren wasteland, for the most part and it has been since the Jews have developed it that Arabs suddenly want to live there. Is that true?

Pretty much. However, it is still true that the Jews did appropriate that land. It belonged to them only in a spiritual sense.

That was then. This is now. Israel is. And they're not going away. Get over it.

[SJackson]

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[ruthles]

There's the rub???? They appropriated the land. One can see from this comes the hatred...and it dovetails with the world's hatred of America. The fact that they've made it a productive, modern civilization in the middle of the pathetic, impoverished Middle East leads to JEALOUSY. OUr enemies want to supplant us so they can have what we've been blessed with.

[Valin]

Not all
Arabs for Israel
Arabs and Muslims who Support the State of Israel and the Cause of Peace in the Middle East
http://www.arabsforisrael.com/

Prof. Khaleel Mohammed
http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/aug04_4.html

[ruthles]

I had a group of girlfriends that included a Jew and an Arabic Christian. Actually her parents kept the key to the home they were kicked out of in present day Israel when it became a nation, and her parents were relocated to Jodan.

Ironically, as Christian Arabs, they fear their Arab brothers more than the Jews who forced them to relocate. He said that when he goes to the Middle East, because of his name, look, attitude, etc. the Muslims can SMELL him a million miles away.

As Christian ARabs they are the ultimate minority. And despite being relocated, I didn't detect anti semitism in them.