Brad McCormick wrote:
> Also: As for the suicide bombers et al. killing children:
> I think if I was an Israeli who was determined to
> fight for my country, I would send my
> children off to their relatives in a safe place like
> the United States -- like the Londoners shipped their
> children to the countryside during the Blitz. Being
> dead right is still being dead even if you are right,
> but why do it to your children?
Unfortunately, Zionist leaders have a track record of placing a
_lower_ priority to Jewish lives (incl. of children) than to their
nationalist goals. As Ben-Gurion put it in 1938:
"If I knew it was possible to save all the [Jewish] children
in Germany by taking them to England, and only half
of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I
would choose the second solution[sic!]. For we must
take into account not only the lives of these
children but also the history of the people of Israel."
[Quoted in: Yvon Gelbner, "Zionist policy and the fate of European
Jewry", in Yad Vashem Studies (Jerusalem, vol. XII, p. 199).]
In the same line, Zionist leaders demanded during WW2 that Jewish
refugees be rejected at foreign borders -- to force them to Palestine,
even if many ended up in Nazi camps -- see "second solution" above.
Sharon continues in this line... "better dead than not in Israel"...
Chris
