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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4413)	9/24/2001 3:15:12 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Why should other's reactions be so criticised? >>> Right..why? Israel fully understand that Arab's goal is to destroy it, not find "just" solution ("just" does not exist in that part of the World anyway)..Why should Israel give Palestinians anything, if they want it all?....

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4413)	9/30/2001 3:10:47 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Just curious, have you ever heard any source for the allegation that "the Arabs threatened to drive the Jews into the sea"? I have heard the term tossed around indiscriminately, and I never even thought to question it, until I read this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myth At the time of the June 1967 war it was stridently asserted by Israel's supporters that Egyptian President Gamal Nasser threatened to drive the Israelis into the sea. This claim, for which there was no evidence at all, was almost universally accepted as fact in the West and it had a powerful effect on public opinion in Britain and the United States at that time, in the wake of the Holocaust of Jews during the Second World War. Facts No evidence or proof has been offered to support these allegations. Those who suggest otherwise are seriously mistaken and merely help to increase the fear and hatred in the Middle East which does so much to prevent a peaceful and just settlement. One British MP, Christopher Mayhew, even offered £5,000 to anyone who could produce evidence that Nasser had made such a statement. Mayhew repeated the offer later in the House of Commons (Hansard, 18 October 1973) and broadened it to include genocidal statements by other Arab leaders. (Manchester Guardian, 9 September 1974). During the following four years Mayhew received a steady trickle of letters from claimants, each one producing some quotation from an Arab leader, usually culled straight from one pro-Israeli publication or another. Eventually, one claimant, Warren Bergson, took Mayhew to court. In February 1976, the case was heard. Significantly, Bergson was unable to offer evidence of Nasser's alleged statement. In Britain's High Court of Justice Bergson acknowledged, after thorough research, he had been unable to find any statement by a responsible Arab leader which could be described as genocidal. The irony of the claim that the Arabs want to throw the Jews into the sea has not been lost on the Palestinians. In 1948, Palestinians were literally pushed into the sea. As photographic evidence shows, Palestinians were driven into the sea at Jaffa late in April 1948. With land routes cut off by Zionist forces, tens of thousands from the Palestinian city of Jaffa and neighbouring villages fled by boat to Gaza and Egypt; scores were drowned. Major R. D. Wilson, who served with the British 6th Airborne Division describes the situation in Haifa in 1948: "Tens of thousands of panic-stricken Arabs streamed out of Haifa [...] The journey was not without its perils since they were open to attack by Jews" (R.D. Wilson, Cordon and Search: with 6th Airborne Division in Palestine, Vale and Polden, 1949, p. 193).