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To: tejek who wrote (251857)	4/29/2002 4:50:28 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ted, Please read this article. Until the Arabs/Palestinians get over the idea that they are going to destroy Israel and the Jews, they will not find peace within themselves or elsewhere. sfgate.com Views on the Middle East Mideast struggle was never about land David Horowitz Friday, April 26, 2002 FROM HIS besieged Ramallah headquarters, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called for "millions of martyrs to march to Jerusalem -- this is our destiny." Arafat's agenda is a wave of suicide bombers to obliterate the "Zionist presence" in Islam. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell does not seem to understand this, nor do most of the nation's press. But it is the meaning of Palestinian deeds. It is what is intended by the targeting of Jewish children and their mothers. It is what is meant by Palestinian maps that omit the state of Israel. It is what was proclaimed in the rejection of a peace plan that included the vast majority of Palestinian negotiating demands. It is what is openly stated in the Palestinian Liberation Organization's "covenant," which calls for the obliteration of the "Zionist entity." It is what Palestine's spiritual leaders, the Grand Muftis of Jerusalem, preach. This is the Palestinian agenda: the elimination of Jewry from the Middle East. The Middle East struggle has never been about a Palestinian state or land. The Palestinians were given both the West Bank and a state in 1947 -- and they rejected both, declaring a war on Israel that has lasted more than 50 years. Israel occupies a minuscule 1 percent of the Arab Middle East and less than 10 percent of the entire area mandated as Palestine by the British, which was not even a political entity -- let alone a nation -- when the Jews were granted a sliver of land. It was just a "mandate" the British carved out of the former Turkish empire. Jordan -- a nation also created by Britain -- occupies 80 percent of the original British Mandate. Nearly 70 percent of Jordan's inhabitants are Palestinian Arabs. Yet Jordan is not the target of a Palestine liberation movement. How is this possible? It is possible because the Hashemite minority that rules Jordan is not Jewish. The Middle East War is not about land and not about injustice. It is a religious war against the Jews. In 1949, Jordan annexed the entire West Bank and held it for 18 years. The Arabs then made and lost a war against Israel, and refused to make peace. The Jews kept the West Bank to prevent the Arabs -- in the absence of a peace -- from using it as a staging area for a third war. Not once in these 18 years was there a complaint from the Palestinians or the Arab states about the injustice of Jordanian occupation of the West Bank. Not once was there an outcry that Jordan had annexed the Palestine "nation." That is because the Palestinians consider themselves Arabs and Muslims first and foremost, and because being "Palestinian" is a remote afterthought. Zionist settlers first began arriving in the already existing Jewish communities of Palestine in the 1880s. They were hoping to end the persecution of the Jews, which was a result of their stateless condition and their expulsion 2000 years ago from Judea and Samaria, which is today known as the West Bank. At the time of the Zionists arrival, there was no Palestinian nation in the region. Today, more than half the land given to the Jews under the British Mandate was desert. But within a generation the Jews had made their desert bloom. Today, the boundary between Israel and Syria is still referred to as the "green line," because the Israeli side has become fertile ground while the Arab side is still a desert. The Jews also built the only industrial and democratic nation in the entire Middle East. The only tolerant society in the heart of Islam. To this day, Israeli Arabs have more rights than the inhabitants of any other state in the Arab Middle East. What is the crime of the Jews -- a tolerant, democratic people -- that they should not have been welcomed into this desert from the beginning? Their crime is that they are heathens in the empire of Islam. The Palestinian terrorists and their sponsors, Arafat and the Palestine Authority, orchestrate the genocidal agenda. There will be no peace until they are defeated or destroyed. David Horowitz is president of the Los Angeles-based Center of Popular Culture and the editor in chief of www.frontpagemag.com

To: tejek who wrote (251857)	4/30/2002 2:03:26 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

re: "And what was offered? Was there repatriation for the lands and property confiscated during the 1948 war after Israel's independence? Has Israel agree to vacate the occupied territories? Will the Israeli residents willingly vacate their settlements?" isj1text.ble.org.uk yorku.ca the-south-asian.com Sorry, but forced migration is the story of the of the 20th century (and probably every previous century as well). Its a pretty crummy world. re:"Besides, the comparison between the Germans/Japanese and the Palestinians is inappropriate." fas.harvard.edu "After World War II, some 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin" - Ever heard of the city of Danzig?