> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Halupovich Ilana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 11 december 2001 6:37 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Tragedy in Israel
> <<> <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. I must admit Israel is smaller than I thought. It is only half the size of The Netherlands (20,770 sq.km. for Israel (Occupied Territories not included) versus 41,526 sq.km. for The Netherlands). However, I could not find a map that showed the locations of Palestinian refugee camps in the various Arab countries... > << 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. Maybe some Jews would have managed to survive, but I doubt Hitler would have allowed them to form the state of Israel. As for the Spanish Inquisition: they did not specifically persecute Jews; they went after anyone who somehow did not behave in the way the Church wanted. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
