I wrote
<<> <SHRUG> For some reason Israel is thought to be big (Jeroen, do you >
know to find it on map?)>>
Jeroen answered
<<Of course I can. Your war against the Palestinians makes the news almost
every day here, so I am quite aware of where to find Israel on a map.>>
Great! Now one step farther - check it's size against 22 Arab countries
around it and find on the map Palestinian refugee camps in all of them. <G>
I wrote
<< And it's fashionable to be on the side of the weak.>>
Jeroen answered
<<And that is something you of all people should definitely be very happy
about. If everyone would always side with the strong party in a conflict,
Hitler would have wiped out all the Jews, and the state of Israel would
never have been founded. And as a result, you would never have existed...>>
You know, I am not religious, but living here, learning history of my people
an Bible I am getting a feeling, that you are wrong. *Your* nation, defined
by short-time history and piece of land would not have survied if Hitler
would have won. Jews would have survived - in our historical land, in
Birobidjan, in hundred other places, as they survived Spanish Inquisition
and all the conquers that passed this lands.
Ilana from Israel
