Posted by 5GJW on March 22, 1999 at 21:11:39 {MWZNJSg.uPfFk}:
In Reply to: **********Realization posted by WW on March 22, 1999 at 19:55:15:
In response:
>Israel is a fully independent state, LEGALLY established by U.N. decree in 1948. The ancestors of the Jews deported 1900 years previously were restored to what had been their homeland.
I guess my question here is who has the better claim, the man whose nation was destroyed 2000 years ago, or the man whose fathers land was taken in 1947?
>The Palestinians are able to be a part of this state and were even given rule of their own section, though they were encouraged to be a peaceful part of Israel all along.
As long as they don't mind being second class citizens in their own land.
>Arab and Jew shared the Holy Land peaceably until they were slaughtered by the Army of Godfroi de Bouillon, during the First Crusade in 1099 a.d.
True. Once again, it is the Christian west causing trouble.
>Instead of whining about the 'poor arabs', how about all of the poor victims of cowardly acts of terrorism in the name of the false charge of Zionism, which is just an excuse for anti-Semitism on the part of the arabs?
I still don't see how wanting their land back automatically makes them racist. Not that a number of them aren't racist, it's just that it does not automatically follow that anyone who does not support Israel is anti-Semitic.
>If the arabs have such a strong case, why did they not go before the U.N. and win a case in World Court?
Um, because they know that it would be a waste of time?
>I realize that this is not a black/white issue but has shades of grey....I give you an out, take it please.
I'm not "in" the category of anti-Semitic, so I do not need your "out". Thanks just the same.
5GJW