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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7666)	10/26/2001 2:17:19 PM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

When your ancestors were living in caves, Jews abolished slavery! You ever read the Bible? ggg Never mind, I understand you Grassone! There is something you have against Jews and you don't want to tell us! By the way your knowledge of history is full of holes!

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7666)	10/26/2001 2:17:28 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

The fact is that even in ancient times it was not uncommon for foreign legends and fables to find their way into the volumes of Talmudic and Midrashic teachings. Our rabbis did not live in isolation from their surroundings, and recognized that an edifying teaching is worth retelling no matter what its source. The concept of "midrash" is accordingly a dynamic one, and there is nothing inherently novel or unacceptable about receiving an Arab folk-tale into the family of Jewish legend. Indeed, the story of "the two brothers" accurately reflects the traditional reverence which Islam has always held for the site of the "Bait al-muqdasah" (the Temple) and its builder, King Solomon. The story, by the way, is still part of the living oral tradition of the Palestinian Arabs. The main purpose of the legend was to emphasize the values of peace, compassion and brotherly love that are symbolized by Jerusalem and the Temple. Is it not therefore doubly appropriate that in admitting (or repatriating) this story into Jewish tradition we should have to express a debt of gratitude precisely to those cousins with regard to whom it has been so difficult to realize those very ideals! ucalgary.ca

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7666)	10/26/2001 2:29:59 PM
From: Ben Wa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

If you want to get into the "who was here first discussion", then if you believe in evolution, we should all go back to living under the sea and give all of the continents back to the plants and insects.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7666)	10/26/2001 4:17:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

Tensions began after the first Zionist settlers arrived in the 1880's...when [they] purchased land from absentee Arab owners, leading to dispossession of the peasants who had cultivated it." Let me see if I've got this straight...the local effendi sold the Jews land which they had effectively stolen from their own peasants, so this is the Zionists' fault? It is their fault for paying good money to the effendi, the Turks, and (as was necessary) the tenants too, thus paying three times over for every piece of land they bought? Wouldn't anybody really interested in justice blame the effendi, who profited from this scheme?