I'm reading an interesting book by Leon Uris called The Haj. Uris is, of course, a supporter of the Jews, but [there's that word again! LOL!] in his telling of the story of pre-WWII Palestine, the Jews paid outrageous prices to the landlord owners of Palestine (who were NOT local and were affiliated with the Ottomans, BTW) for the land they built their kibbutzim on.
Now correct me if I'm wrong here. It appears to me that the Palestinians who want to exterminate the Israelis are bent on simple bloodyhanded theft and murder. Or would they honor the Israeli land purchases once they attained control of the region? (I believe pigs would fly, first...)
Now correct me if I'm wrong here. It appears to me that the Palestinians who want to exterminate the Israelis are bent on simple bloodyhanded theft and murder.The point I was trying to make was that when you get involved in someone elses fight, and then end up taking one of the sides, you are bound to attract some of the sh*t. By all means, the Arabs then should hate us Turks, since we let hundreds of thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews pass through Turkey into Palestine during WWII. The world is not a rational place, as proven by some of our Arab co-habitors, as well as these just-as-passionate haters over here.