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Funny that you would post this article today!

In a coincidence, I came into posession of a wallet today. It was just lying there on the sidewalk after a couple guys walked by.

I used to have a wallet that looked just like it but I had lost it or it was stolen a long time ago.
The wallet contained a few bucks and some personal effects that didn't belong to me so I started throwing out the stuff I didn't recognize. Of course I recognized the money!!! I'm sure it was my wallet.

What I couldn't believe was that one of the guys that had walked by came back and said that it was his wallet. I showed him the inside and asked him to identify it. There wasn't anything in it to prove it was his any more than mine. It was about then that he started to get mad and start swinging at me.

I kicked his butt so it must have been my wallet.

What point are you trying to make with this bogus wallet story?

pretty piss poor analogy

a better analogy would be some guys come for your wallet and started to beat you up. you beat them off and chase them away and they drop their wallets... you pick them up and take the money out of them to pay for your security guards...

just my thoughts, teeman

That is an interesting analogy, but you have it backwards.

The Arabs conquered Judea/Israel from the Byzantines in 640-41. Until that time, despite repeated slaughters, colonization, and ethnic cleansing, Jews and Samaritans were still the majority population.
The Arab Muslims proceeded to start Islmacizing the land. Synagogues and Churches were turned into Mosques. At various points there were forced conversions. Jews and Christians were, at best, Dhimmi and had to pay a special tax.
Despite this, thousands of Jews remained in occupied Israel, and a small number always immigrated. In the 1880's, a larger number began to immigrate. At the same time, Arabs from Syria Egypt Iraq and Lebanon also immigrated to take advantage of jobs created as Jews began to buy and imrpove the land. The fact is that between 1890 and 1946 more Arabs than Jews settled the land.

However, the landless Arab tenants began to become radicalised. Working for Jews was abhorrent in Islam.
tensions arose in the 1920's. In 1923, 3/4 of "Palestine" was set aside as an Arab state, Transjordan. Jews were effectively barred from this land and Jewish property there was seized. The remaining 1/4 of the land (essentially 1949 Israel plus the West Bank adn Gaza) was set aside for Jewish settlement.
Unfortunately, while teh Arabs agreed to this, new violence broke out under the agitation of the British installed Grand Mufti, Haj Amin Al-Husseini. The British stepped aside for a week whuile Arabs slaughtered Jews adn expelled them from Hebron. http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_riots_1929.php

this was not the only time Arabs tried to slaughter Jews for thier land. During the 1947-48 war for Independence, the Arabs conquered many Jewish communities by force and expelled Jews from these. This included the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. In fact, the Arab armies, tried much more. They intended to conquer the whole land. Many Arab civilian facilitated this by heading the order of Arab armies to leave and make room for battles. Thus thousands of Arabs (mostly the landless immigrants or their children) left in the hopes of taking the homes and property of Jews killed by the Arab armies.

It seems to me that Jews are the ones taking back their wallets. The Arabs want to get back the property they stole. Otherwise, cute analogy.