[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colin, I've not suggested that anyone who disagrees with me is a Jew hater - nor has Laurent. On the contrary, I wrote that I believe most people in the West who oppose the government of Israel are NOT anti-Semitic. But Israel's Arab enemies are, and they were anti-Semites (or Jew haters, if you prefer) long before Palestine was ever an issue, which is an important point to note. Here is a diary entry from a 19th century Western visitor to the Middle East: "I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew, and one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish gaberdine. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it would be more than his life was worth to offer to strike a Mahommedan." (From The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis).you could look in the Bible and read how the idea 'ethnic cleansing' got started, how God told his people to 'clean the land', how he told his people to kill men women and children and animals.....to rid the land of those that were different.
Assuming one believes it of course, that it is indeed the history of the Jewish people(OT).
