On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, shempmcgurk <shempmcg...@netscape.net> wrote: > > I learned something new today. > > I didn't know that there was a country called "Palestine" in 1946! >
Whenever I go to the Muslim Middle East, I take with me Leon Uris's book The Haj. It's his answer to Exodus. A very good read and very informative. The book helps me put the whole Philistine (as the Palestinians are called) issue in perspective. There were two sets of shit stirrers in the Middle East. One was of course the Jews. The other where the Muslim states (the very ones we kiss up to or give the 2nd largest amount of US foreign aide to), who refused to take the refugees in from Palestine. The Palestinians were just off the desert from being a nomadic people. They could have easily settled in and become Saudis, Jordanians, Turks or Egyptians if they were allowed to. The Jews really did want to create a place where Jews and Muslims could live side by side in peace and prosperity but the Saudis would have none of that. The House of Saud wanted things to be and remain as unsettled as they are now because, well, because they hated the Jews.
