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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:09:37 +0530
From: "Marshall Mendonza" <[email protected]>
Reading about the conflict in West Asia, It is my view that the conflict is
more about land and territory than religion. Muslims and Jews have never had a
history of conflict until Israel was forcibly set up in 1948 in Palestine,
thereby displacing millions of Palestinians.
Mario responds:
Marshall,
This baseless codswallop proves what I said to Roland the other day, that the
Palestinian propaganda machine has been pretty successful. You can't create a
"view" out of whole cloth while ignoring all the facts.
The partition of Galilee into Israel and Palestine was no more "fair" or
"unfair" than the partition of India, depending on one's point of view. It was
brokered by the Brits and ratified by the UN.
While Indians and Pakistanis accepted their partition, with massive
displacement and mayhem on both sides of the border, the Arabs never did accept
Israel's right to exist AND MOST OF THEM STILL DO NOT.
Kashmir would probably gone to Pakistan or stayed independent if the planned
referendum had been allowed to take place - but the same jihadi mentality could
not wait in Kashmir, just as it could not wait for any negotiation of
grievances through the UN in Palestine. In both cases they decided to take the
law into their own hands and force the issue in their favor.
I recall speeches at Israel's inauguration where their leaders reached out
their hands in friendship to the Arabs - to no avail. No Muslims were
displaced until five Arab armies, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt
invaded Israel simultaneously to "push the Jews into the sea" right after
Israel was formed in 1947. They got their butts kicked instead, and the rest
is history.
If the Arabs had accepted Israel back then they would have had more territory
than they have now and the whole area would have experienced peace and
prosperity because the Palestinians are just as enterprising, and hardworking
as their fellow-Semites, the Jews, as we see on a daily basis in the US.
However, just as in Kashmir, Iraq and Afghanistan, a small number of homicidal
Muslim radicals have caused untold misery for millions.
There will never be peace in the region until Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic
Jihad are taken down or neutralized one way or another. This is because their
founding charters all include the elimination of Israel, by force if necessary.
They have no intentions of living in peace alongside Israel, and even their
maps of the region exclude Israel.
None of this is going to happen if the gullible around the world treat them -
the aggressors - as if they are victims. The REAL victims are the innocent
Palestinians they have intimidated into abject sheep and use as human shields
when Israel retaliates.
