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To: the_Watchman
I agree, living in a muslim dominated country is not an appealing proposition (in fact, I would also say it was a big mistake that we fell for a lot of false and/or exagerated atrocity stories and backed the muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo). I would also agree that the arabs inhabiting Palestine prior to 1948 were for the most part a backward, unorganized group that did not have all the institutions of a modern state or maybe not even an understanding of what a modern nation is.

But the title of the article is "The Jews took no one's land". Well, that's just plain untrue. Now, you can argue that it was RIGHTFULLY taken, but obviously Palestine did not just drop out of the sky in 1948 for the Jews to move in. No matter how unorganized and sparsely inhabited it may or may not have been, the arabs there considered it theirs, and it was taken from them at the point of a gun.

48 posted on 06/05/2002 5:37:34 PM PDT by bob808
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To: bob808
. . . obviously Palestine did not just drop out of the sky in 1948 for the Jews to move in. No matter how unorganized and sparsely inhabited it may or may not have been, the arabs there considered it theirs, and it was taken from them at the point of a gun.

Did the Arabs ever have it? Prior to 1917, for centuries, the Turks had it. Although Turks and Arabs are both Moslems, they sure don't tend to like each other. By the way, Turkish rulers spent a lot of their time in Palestine protecting the Jews from local Arabs who would from time to time massacre Jews. Although, during the last few decades of Turkish rule, Palestine's Jews finally began to arise from centuries of lethargy and arm themselves for self-defense.

The people who took Palestine from the Turks, not the Arabs, at the point of a gun, were the British, in 1917. Then the U.N. divided Palestine in 1947 between mostly Jewish areas, which were supposed to go to Israel, and mostly Arab areas, which were supposed to go to the Arabs. Palestine's Arabs have never accepted this concept, leading to everything which has happenned since then.

57 posted on 06/08/2002 5:23:30 AM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
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