--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > Dear Cornel, > I have much respect and sympathy for the Jews, for > their enormous contribution to society and their > perseverance through all they've had to endure in > history. However when they had an opportunity to > make right the wrongs of history, they've proven > that they are equally if not more brutal. > Elisabeth, > You say you have respect and sympathy for the Jews, but the rest of your post totally contradicts your opening sentiment. > What "wrongs of history" are you talking about that needed to be made right by "the Jews"? When exactly did "the Jews" have this wonderful opportunity "to make right the wrongs of history"? > To get a handle on your position, would it be possible for you to respond to the following points? > a) By saying that "Europe" made up the "firm historical and Biblical" rationale for a Jewish homeland, are you denying that Jews populated Galilee, and only Galilee, since Biblical times, and not Europe, Canada, Australia or Uganda? > b) Were you aware that the UN ratified the partition of Galilee, just as they ratified the partition of India? > c) So, what makes the Arabs so special that you and Cornel make excuses for their decision to "wipe Israel off the map" starting in 1948, instead of peacefully negotiating their grievances with the Israelis, Brits and UN? > d) Were you aware that Israel has been under attack by all it's neighbors, individually and collectively, since 1948, until only Jordan and Egypt got tired of getting their behinds kicked? > e) Were you aware that Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa Brigades all have written policies in their founding charters calling for the destruction of Israel? > f) Facing the prospect of annihilation by some or all of it's neighbors, not just the periodic attacks that Indians are subjected to, what would you suggest that Israel do, right after saying, "India has to act and with deadly force." against the terrorists that attacked Mumbai last week? >
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