At 12:40 PM 12/30/01 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>The only thing I am objecting to is that some people here seem to think it
>is okay for Israel to expand its borders by military conquest because it
>did not like the borders it was given when the State of Israel was founded.
>First the international community decides to give the Jews the country they
>have longed for all those centuries, and then Israel goes expansionist
>because it believed it had not be given enough. So much for gratitude...
:-(
>
>Suppose we would finally give the Palestinians their own country. Palestine
>then promptly attacks its neighbours (including Israel) because it does not
>like the borders it has been given. Would that be accepted? Personally, I
>think the US would be bombing Palestine within a month.\
What history text books do they use in the Netherlands? Again Jeroen,
gross misrepresentations of history go a loooong way in making people start
to wonder about anti-Semitism on your part.
Israel was *attacked* by each and every one of its neighbors (and then
some), Jeroen, *attacked*!!!!!!
Three times.
Please come back when you plan on discussing history as it really happened.
JDG
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