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To: OldWhig
The Jews owned that land thousands of years before the religion of Islam was even born, and they have it now.

That’s nonsense and Zionist propaganda. I see Arabs living in old stone houses that the Israelis go in and throw out, and then they blow up their homes and build Israeli apartment buildings on that property. If you think God want’s that, you’re crazy.

What more justification do they need.

How about a legal deed and a good title search going back 5,000 years?

Oh, and incidentally, do you think we Americans should give back our land to the Indians?

The land I live on was bought by one of my relatives from a Mexican, who bought it from an Anglo, who bought it from an Indian. Most private land in America was either uninhabited or bought from Indians, and many thousands of European-Americans intermarried with Indians in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. I’m part Cherokee myself. I didn’t get my land by murdering kids who were throwing rocks and by blowing up goat herder’s homes.

133 posted on 10/12/2001 4:49:10 AM PDT by Fred25
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To: Fred25
You are so woefully ignorant that you are an embarassment to this forum.

First, check your history. We did not save the Jews of Europe. Most of them died. When we had the chance to bomb the rail lines, we didn't. When a boatload of refugees came here, Roosevelt shipped them back. We knew what was happening to the Jews, but that wasn't why we fought.

Second, the Jews did not steal that land. Most of it was paid for. Check the records. Regarding the mandate that was given to the Jews, Jews purchased more than 460,000 acres of land between 1880-1947 from the Arab landowners. The Catholic church donated some land as well, as did the British government. What land they didn't purchase from the Arabs constituted primarily the Negev Desert, which was and still is uninhabited, and some densely populated areas which is not the same as "taking" their land, since the Arab owners still owned the land, only the sovereignty of the nation changed over to the Jews from the British. But if you knew much about the pre-state mandate, you would know that the Jews were never safe from murderous Islamic fanatics even decades before Israel came to be and the brutal way in which the Jews were treated by both the British and the Arabs only hastened the desire of the Jews living there to declare their independence.

Finally, don't be foolish about our own history. One the one hand you exaggerate what the Jews did, and on the other you try to minimize the American experience. We kicked the Native Americans off far more land, and for much less important reasons than agriculture or housing. We did it for gold, for oil, and because we thought they were dangerous savages. The Jews in 1948 declared that they wanted the Arabs to stay in Israel and help build a nation. The next day the Arabs invaded. Palestinians fled on the assurances of the Arabs armies that they would defeat the Jewish state and allow them to return. That war has been raging now for 53 years. It's time for the Arabs, and you, to make peace with the Jews, or forever remain the anacronism you are.

150 posted on 10/12/2001 9:38:52 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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