[markomalley]

wow, Marko. In the old Testament they were commanded to do unto others..........or aren’t you aware of that?

Here's what I read in the Old Testament:

Deuteronomy 12 1 "These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be careful to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live upon the earth. 2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree; 3 you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place.

Sorry. But it says what it says. And if we are to support Israel based upon their Abrahamic patrimony, then they need to follow unpleasant rules, including that one.

[PapaBear3625]

2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;

I've long had the opinion that when the Israelis took Jerusalem in 1967, one of their first acts should have been to remove the mosque from the Temple Mount, and expel all Muslims (paying double fair market value for their houses). They would have had some screaming from the Islamic states, but they would have that regardless, and it would have settled things.

[GladesGuru]

Looking up what G*d commanded the Jews to do with the Canaanites is quite educational.