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Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
I believe Israel has the right to exist.
Originally posted by mattpryor
How many Arabs live, own property, vote and work in Israel?
How many Jews will be allowed to live in the proposed "Palestinian State"?
Hint: The P.A. reserves the death penalty for any Palestinian who sells land to a Jew.
The way things are going Israel will tell Obama to keep his "guaranteed loans", shove them where the sun doesn't shine, and in future mind his own bloody business. Quite honestly with friends like that Israel doesn't need enemies.
I also wonder how long George Mitchell will put up with being summoned to Ramallah for every planning application submitted in East Jerusalem. Utterly ridiculous.
[edit on 30-7-2009 by mattpryor]
Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
God stated..
Originally posted by Beach Bum
Wow is seems like Obama gets dumber every day. Trying to tell the chosen people what to do doesn't go well very long maybe he should bone up on his history or at least fix the cranial rectum insertion problem he seems to have. When will people learn no one here can force peace in the middle east it just doen't happen. the best part is him telling them they can't build on their own land I'd be telling him to piss off.
[edit on 10-04-08 by Beach Bum]
[edit on 10-04-08 by Beach Bum]
Originally posted by phoenix103
reply to post by SLAYER69
Israel needs to remember some lessons from the past. Its coming across as a nasty, bitter, evil place these days.
Israel will not be invaded and defeated. Even if you remove the God factor, Israel has something people tend to forget. Israel has nuclear weapons, if the destruction of Israel seems likely, they well excercise the "Samson Option" which will effectively destroy the middle ease, including the state of Israel. You see, the Jews take the slogan "Never again" quite seriously.
Originally posted by phoenix103
reply to post by kettlebellysmith
Would it have been ok if it had been decided that where you live right now was going to be used to form a state and that you'd be leaving, like it or not?
I suspect not.
Originally posted by kettlebellysmith
reply to post by breakingdradles
It won't be the end of Israel. But it will be the end of those who turn their backs on Israel.
azvsas.blogspot.com...
"No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendents. The first Zionists, up until the Arab Revolt [1936-9], knew that there had been no exiling, and that the Palestinians were descended from the inhabitants of the land. They knew that farmers don't leave until they are expelled. Even Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, 'the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.'"#
What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora -- the story recounted at Passover tables by Jews around the world every year detailing the ancient Jews` exile from Judea, the years spent wandering through the desert, their escape from the Pharaoh`s clutches -- is all wrong?
`Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does exist in popular Israeli culture, it is negligible in serious Jewish historical discussions.` Bartal added: `no historian of the Jewish national movement has ever really believed that the origins of the Jews are ethnically and biologically `pure.` ` He noted that `mportant groups in the [Zionist] movement expressed reservations regarding this myth or denied it completely.`
The first ministerial level meeting between Israel and the Palestinian authority since the establishment of the Netanyahu government took place yesterday in Tel Aviv. Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom and Palestinian Minister of National Economy, Dr. Bassim Khoury, both attended a conference on economic peace organized by the Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv University and the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung fund.