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Try 1400 hundred years of utter contempt between the arabs and Jews.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: neo96
Try 1400 hundred years of utter contempt between the arabs and Jews.
So you are clueless about the history between Muslims and Jews huh? Do a little research and you will find that the Jews lived with the Muslims because the Muslims provided protection to the Jews when the Christians were murdering them. When the Christians retook Spain the Jews left with the Muslims instead of having to face the Christians. The majority of problems between Muslims and Jews started after the rise of modern day Zionism just like Theodor Herzl wanted.
originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: buster2010
Give the Israelphobia a rest.
Also the protection you spoke of only lasted until the christians stopped trying to retake jerusalem.
All over abraham and his illegetimate son Ishmail born to a homewrecker.
originally posted by: yuppa
a reply to: buster2010
Centuries my arse. the palestinians that Arafatt spoke of didnt exist for that long. THOSe are the ones causing the strife.
Also since biblical times arabs and jews have been at odds. All over abraham and his illegetimate son Ishmail born to a homewrecker.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: yuppa
All over abraham and his illegetimate son Ishmail born to a homewrecker.
You mean the homewrecker that his wife ordered him to have a child with even though God said she was to have the child? Abraham should have kicked her butt to the curb instead of going against the will of God.
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: yuppa
a reply to: buster2010
Centuries my arse. the palestinians that Arafatt spoke of didnt exist for that long. THOSe are the ones causing the strife.
Also since biblical times arabs and jews have been at odds. All over abraham and his illegetimate son Ishmail born to a homewrecker.
I guess no one told the Israeli's the entire middle east is suppose to be an ISREAL FREE ZONE ?
By todays standards YEs she was a homewrecker.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: OhOkYeah
You think stealing land, which increased under Netanyahu, isnt wrong? Are you insane?
There is evidence of human activity in Transjordan as early as the Paleolithic period (c. 90,000 BC).[citation needed] The area was settled by nomadic tribes in the Bronze Age, which consolidated in small kingdoms during the Iron Age - such as the Edomites and Ammonites, with partial areas controlled by the Israelites.
In 1948, Jordan fought with the newly born state of Israel over lands of former Mandatory Palestine, effectively gaining control of the West Bank and annexing it with its Palestinian population. Jordan lost West Bank in the 1967 War with Israel, and since became the central base of the PLO in its struggle against Israel. The alliance between the PLO and the Jordanians, active during the War of Attrition, came to an end in the bloody Black September in Jordan in 1970, when a civil war between Jordanians and Palestinians (with Syrian Ba'athist support) took thousands of lives. In the aftermath, defeated PLO was forced out of Jordan together with tens of thousands of its fighters and their Palestinian families, relocating to South Lebanon.
Britain finally took a decision by 1921 whereby Palestine was to be included in the formal Palestine Mandate. Moreover, as a gesture to Britain’s wartime promises with Arabs, they decided to exempt the territory of Transjordan from the provisions of mandate related to the Jewish National Home. In return, they asked Abdullah to abandon fighting for Syria and instead took charge of the administration of British-controlled Transjordan. A British memorandum was presented to the League of Nations in 1922 where it was affirmed that the mandate document and its provisions were not pertinent to the territory separated by the British known as Transjordan. This was 80% of the mandate land which was taken away from the Jews as their prospective homeland to their much agitation.
The Merneptah Stele—also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele of Merneptah—is an inscription by the Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign: 1213 to 1203 BC) discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1896 at Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.[1][2] The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last 3 of the 28 lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions. While alternative translations have been put forward, the majority[citation needed] of biblical archeologists translate a set of hieroglyphs on Line 27 as "Israel", such that it represents the first documented instance of the name Israel in the historical record,[2] and the only mention in Ancient Egypt.[3] It is also one of only four known ancient inscriptions interpreted to mention the term "Israel", the others being the Mesha Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and the Kurkh Monolith.[4] As a result, some consider the stele to be Flinders Petrie's most famous discovery,[5] an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.
Two Decades of Undermining Arafat
Given the level of control that the Israeli intelligence services such as the Shin Bet and Mossad have been able to exert over the Palestinian territories during the last 35 years of Israeli occupation, the capability to manipulate militant and violent organizations, such as those associated with Hamas, should not surprise anyone familiar with intelligence and even routine police operations. This should be obvious, considering that Israel has routinely recruited thousands of collaborators and provocateurs among the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have passed through Israeli prisons in over 35 years of its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Most convincing is a comparison of the development of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and their antecedents, and the growing national and international legitimacy of the PLO and its undisputed leader, Arafat.
Hamas is an acronym for Harafat al-Muqawama Al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Resistance Movement. Its spiritual leader is Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who, despite his fiery anti-Israeli sermons, has had an unusual relationship with the Israeli authorities. In 1973, Yassin established the Islamic Association—at a time when it was Israeli policy to promote what Ambassador Kurtzer refers to as the "Islamic movement."
One might ask: Why should Israel promote an Islamic movement which later turns around and attacks it? How could the Israeli secret services be taken in by a Yassin? They weren't. The simple fact is, that the stated policy of Hamas is simply the flip side of Sharon's "Greater Israel" policy that refuses to seek a territorial compromise. The Hamas charter in 1988 stated, "The land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations, and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it.... Peace initiatives, the so-called peace initiatives, are all contraray to the beliefs of Hamas, for renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion." In this rhetoric there is no room for a state of Israel—as there is none for a state of Palestine in Sharon's "Greater Israel."
The Anti-Oslo Terror Campaign Begins
The Oslo Accords marked the first glimmer of hope for a resolution of the Middle East conflict. And, the first suicide terrorist attack aimed at destroying it was not launched by Hamas or Islamic Jihad or another Palestinian faction. The first suicide attack was launched on Feb. 25, 1994, by Israeli terrorist Baruch Goldstein, when he entered the Mosque of Hebron and killed 50 Muslim worshippers as well as himself. Goldstein was a member of Kach, the terrorist organization founded by the late Meir Kahane, who also founded the Jewish Defense League in the 1960s in the United States. Kach, which is well connected to Sharon, is on the official U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations.
The unprecedented massacre was calculated to set the stage for a suicide bombing campaign by Hamas and its split-off, Islamic Jihad, over the next year. In fact, it set into motion the "cycle of violence" that has yet to end. The Goldstein attack came at precisely the point when Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and Arafat began the formal implementation of the Oslo agreement which envisioned the establishment of a Palestinian state by 1998. The first Hamas-linked suicide attacks did not start until two months later, in April 1994, when Rabin and Arafat signed the agreement for the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. The agreement called for the conduct of free elections throughout the territories—which would eventually establish the international legitimacy of the Arafat-led government.
But despite this terror campaign, which lasted for months under a massive crackdown by Arafat's security forces, the Rabin-Arafat alliance, although seriously weakened, was not broken. This alliance was finally broken with Rabin's assassination by an Israeli, on Nov. 5, 1995.
originally posted by: AmericanRealist
a reply to: neo96
But at this point in time, for what appears to be the very first time in history, it is the Jews doing the persecution.
Is that not odd to anyone??
originally posted by: AmericanRealist
If Israelis want to create more settlements, I volunteer the land on the Mexican side of our border. Once Israelis create a border, they know how to lock it down. Come on over guys, we need some border security, and the land is not too dissimilar. Get on over here and build some settlements along the Mexican border.