To: Zeev Hed who wrote (17073 ) 6/4/2001 10:01:08 PM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 30051 New York Times on the Web Forums Opinion Op-Ed William Safire Share your thoughts on recent Op-Ed columns by William Safire. Your host is Hampton Stevens. Write Mr. Stevens only when problem posts appear on the Forums. With any other questions or comments please write the Threadmaster. (10064 previous messages) mrsween2 - 08:12pm Jun 4, 2001 EST (#10065 of 10073) My fellow readers, Please allow me to make a few points. For people who are ignorant of the facts, here are just some of them: Fact -- UN resolutions such as 242 are non-binding (you can look it up). Fact -- these resolutions are especially non-binding to Arabs, who refused to accept them until they realized that they cannot kill the Jews just by military means. Fact - Israel did not "occupy" any other country. For those of you who believe that they occupy Jordanian territory you might want to recall that even "king" Hussein announced that he has no claim to that territory, which was incidentally occupied by Jordan in 1948 (look it up). Fact - most Arabs or their descendants that comprise the four million or so refugees (the original number was about 650,000) came to Palestine from Egypt and other Arab countries seeking employment opportunities after first Zionist Pioneers made oasis out of the desert. Fact - vast majority of these Arabs chose to leave during wars of 1948 and 1967 reinforced by the promises of the invading Arab army leaders that when they throw the Jews into the sea, evryone can come back for a free Jewish booty. Fact - between 1948 and 1967 there were about 700,000 Jews expelled from various Arab countries with the clothes on their back for no other reason that they are Jews. Fact - from 1993 until present Arabs kill over 600 Jews, not to mention how many were maimed. Fact - the amount and ferocity of an anti-Semitic incitement in Arab press is only rivaled by Nazi propaganda (for the sticklers by anti-Semitic I mean anti-Jewish) And finally, BBC and CNN are not unbiased and objective sources of information. For anti-Semites, For you dear folk who would sleep with the devil in order to bring a final "Final Solution", I say keep dreaming Thank You p.s. "anti-Zionism is same thing as anti-Semitism" Martin Luther King