From: Gene McAloon 

On Wed, 7 May 2003 22:27:34 -0400, "William F. Zachmann"
 wrote:

>On
>the other hand, this Arabs/Palestinians would not be in the pickle they are
>in were it not for their refusal to acknowledge that they Jews have a
>reasonable claim, too.  They are simply stupid, to the extent that they
>think it make any sense to pursue a policy based upon the assumption that
>Israel can simply be eliminated entirely (which has been the fundamental
>Arab/Palestinian folly since 1948).

The Jews had no legitimate claim to the land., none. They were given Arab
land not least out of a sense of quilt over what later came to be called
the Holocaust. Not to mention it was a convenient way to get rid of all
those Jewish refugees in Europe no one wanted around.  The Arabs had every
right to oppose the give-away of their land. They were justified in
resisting, although they lost that round.

They will not lose the ongoing war, however. If nothing else, demographic
factors will return the land to its proper owners. The Jews will be no more
successful than the Crusaders were and I suspect the Jews will not hold out
anywhere near as long as they did.

The creation of Israel  was a great injustice and not mitigated by what
happened to the Jews in Europe under the Nazis. The Arabs have been made to
suffer because the Jews had suffered in Europe. There is no justice in
that, not even for the Jews. What Israel has become in trying to maintain
its presence on Arab land has made Israel a pariah among nations with the
US its only major supporter.

I have no doubt that future Jews will see the creation of the Israel state
in 1948 as a huge mistake, an ugly and wrong-headed reaction to a one time
event that occurred  under the Nazis, a mistake that diminished all Jews
everywhere.

Gene

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