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To: ExiledInTaiwan
From the conclusion in your link:

Israel must abide by the consensus of world opinion and withdraw to its 1967 borders, as demanded in numerous UN votes.

If the Jews ever listened to 'world opinion' in the past they would be dead. This group fails to recognize the legitimate fears of Jews. I don't blame Jews for not trusting "world opinion". No other group in the history of the world has suffered as much for as long as the Jews.

Furthermore, someone should prove that the UN resolutions say that Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders. I don't believe it says that at all. So the premise of their conclusion is wrong.

American Jews in particular have a special responsibility to acknowledge the Palestinian point of view in order to help move the debate forward. As Chomsky writes in his Peace in the Middle East?, "In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice, whatever one may think of the competing claims. Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin."

Why do American Jews have a special responsibility? What about French Jews, Morroccan Jews, British Jews? Do all Jews have a 'special responsibility' in this regard? And what about Arabs? Do Palestinians have a special responsibility at all? The other Arabs?

While some Palestinians have suffered an injustice, on whole it was largely of their own doing, after making a calculated decision to cause a (failed) injustice to the Jews in Palestine in 1947-1948. They left hoping that someone else would kill off the Jews so that they could return. How cynical can you get? Yes, their plight is a terrible condition, but as I amply demonstrated above with at least a score of pieces of evidence, they fled hoping the Jews would be destroyed by the Arab armies at the urging of the Arab leaders. In that regard, they deserved their fate.

95 posted on 11/16/2001 1:17:25 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine
Israel must abide by the consensus of world opinion and withdraw to its 1967 borders

If the Jews ever listened to 'world opinion' in the past they would be dead. This group fails to recognize the legitimate fears of Jews. I don't blame Jews for not trusting "world opinion".

They also fail to recognize that Israel was once at its 1967 borders, in 1967. The result, an Arab attack.

99 posted on 11/16/2001 1:17:33 PM PST by SJackson
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