Posted on 04/15/2002 10:52:54 PM PDT by Decentralize
It's not like Arafat disagrees.
He says he won't ask his forces to halt the violence until the Israelis withdraw totally.
Disappointment, dashed illusions and sorrow do not an "anti-Semite" make. His are considered criticisms ... often made with a heavy heart, I suspect.
I feel the same way often. Largely thanks to this place. Grew up as kid enamoured and admiring of many who -- as it turns out -- were not at all the men I thought they were.
"Yeah," she said, "she's from Sweden, she's from Italy and I'm from Jew-land."
I guess, being born here and all ... like her parents and her parents' parents, she wasn't keen on being "foreign" for her Jewishness.
Well, with the exception of some Aryan Nation-types, the anti-immigration Right doesn't advocate ethnic cleansing. The Israelis forcibly removed folks and occupied lands that rightfully do not belong to them. Illegal Mexicans have no correlating "right of return" to Southern Cali as the Palestines have to their homes in Israel.
Oh!...I forgot. Some centuries ago the Arabs invaded Palestine, killing thousands and confiscating the property and wealth of the land. And then forcing an alien language and religion on the people.
This is a scenario that they repeated across northern Africa all the way to the south of France. And in the other direction all the way to India and beyond. And north all the way to Vienna.
Perhaps it is time for the Muslim world to begin to shrink, if only a little bit.
1. Actually the Mexicans claim they do. Remember that the US took the land in war. (Texad Independence and then Mexican-American War).
2. The Arabs ethnically cleansed first. Ask the Jews of the West Bank communities that existed for 2500 years until the 1920's. For that matter, check out the Judenrein country of Jordan which is made up of 3/4 of Palestine.
3. Israel has Arab citizens. They constitute 18% of the Population and have full rights.
4. 2/3 of "Palestinains" are actually decended from immigrants from other Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon who rented land. (only 9% of the land was owned by Arabs, and that number would be less had the Arabs no started assasinating Arabs who sold land to Jews.)
5. The Us has a right to ask illegal Mexicans to leave. Why not Israel?
Would that be the 2/3 of Arabs living in Palestine in 1946 who were from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq? I find it sad that these Arab countries would not take them back, but used them as weapons.
You forget the fact that more Arabs immigrated to the British mandate from 1890-1946 due to British policies and Jewish development of the land.
Writing for a Holocaust revisionist org like IHR does.
I'm quite certain the suicide bombers aren't motivated by money.
BS! Mexicans have no right of return because we won that territory from Mexico in a war. Same with the territories Isreal occupied. Isreal would be justified in simply annexing those territories, but instead has offered generous terms for the so-called Palestinian people to form their own nation -- no takers, because the 'Palestinians' want all of Isreal. Anyone who uses the term 'Palestinians' as denoting anything unique has their facts muddles to begin with. They are from Jordan, Egypt, SA, from all over the map. The simple fact is that Isreal is willing to co-exist with Moslem states on three sides, if they were willing to do the same. On the other hand, the PLO/PLA and allied terrorists make insincere statements about peace and co-existence for the world's comsumption while continuously and brazenly calling for Isreal's eradication in their own language, and have never altered their charter's call for the same. They live, breathe and practice intolerance and genocide against Jews. If you believe Joe Sobran, you believe the Palestinians want peace and democracy so much they are wiling to target innocent children, teenagers, old folks, etc. in order to get it. What a bunch of total suckers exist in this world that Isreal gets condemned daily around the world for doing what any country has the legitimate right to do when attacked, while the rabid hatred of her enemies is never remarked upon by the Sobranites. The USA and her Allies inflicted much greater civilian casualties during WWII. If we were held to the phoney standards expected of Isreal, we would all be speaking German right about now. Isreal-bashers can all go hang!
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