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To: Architect
Just how far back in history do you want to go? In the 1700s, the group of people that currently call themselves Palestinians were forced there by the Ottoman Empire. In the late 600s, the Arabians booted the Byzantine Empire from the region. Before Christ, the Romans stormed in and grabbed the region from the Greeks. You care to go back to Biblical times? Okay; how about the Assyrians, or the Babylonians, or the Egyptians, or the Jews, who have the oldest claim to the land? Oh, let's not forget about the British, who ruled the land from the end of WWI until 1948. Also, let's not forget those few Jews that managed to stay there almost continuously since the Romans threw them out in AD 70.

I have read your recent posts, and the tone carried throughout certainly justifies the anti-Jewish (do bear in mind that the Arabs are also Semites before you claim that you're anti-Semitic) label you have earned. I strongly doubt that Israeli gunships will hurt me, but a Palestinian hijacked plane or car bomb certainly will.

You wish to make a moral equivalence between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Only one side's avowed goal and leader-ordered directive is to kill every last person on the other side. Only one side's goal is to live within borders that are defensible with neighbors that do not wish to see it extinct. Given that the one side's goal is nothing short of anihilation, the other side has been forced to respond harshly in an attempt to sap the will of that side to anihilate. Said response has already worked on a couple of other former enemies.

Since you are incapable of distinguishing truth from the blind ignorance of hatred, I will repeat what I just said, identifying the sides for you. Only the Palestinian's avowed goal and leader-ordered directive is to kill every last Israeli. Only Israel's goal (at least vis-a-vis the Palestinians) is to live within borders that are defensible with neighbors that do not wish to see it extinct. Given that the Palestinian's goal is nothing short of anihilation, the Israelis has been forced to respond harshly in an attempt to sap the will of the Palestinians to anihilate them. Said response has already worked on Egypt and Jordan, which no longer advocate Israel's extinction.

409 posted on 09/14/2001 6:23:16 AM PDT by steveegg
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To: steveegg
Your continuing insistence that words outtrump deeds clearly proves your incapability to think straight. It's pathetic. As for the issue of ancient history, I already pointed out that I could care less about what happened 50 years, let alone 3000 years ago. You continue to lie to yourself. Denouncing me as anti-Semite while simultaneously obfuscating the commonly-held meaning of the word merely proves that you prefer to talk instead of think.

Oh. And if you are in fanger of Palestinian hijacked planes or car bombs, could this be because of your advocacy of Isreali gunships?

410 posted on 09/14/2001 6:37:08 AM PDT by Architect
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