If you really want to know the heart of the matter buy and read the book "From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters. Awesome book that strips away the propaganda using that powerful antidote - the truth!Is that a truly unbiased source? No offense intended towards you or Free Republic, because most people have the same opinions that I do, but sometimes it's hard to find truly unbiased material here.
Which is hard to do anywhere, now that I think about it...
well, finding a truly unbiased source anywhere is very difficult. the best you can hope for is that the facts are straight.
the interesting part of this book is that Miss Peters started it out to investigate the plight of the "Arab refugees" - even meeting with the PLO in the early 70s only to do an about face after confronting the facts.