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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (722)	7/9/2002 3:22:05 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 3467

Allen, Suppose that Israel retreated to it's pre-1967 borders. How long would it be before the next Arab invasion? It is a long standing tradition (going back to Mohammed) to break treaties after 10 years. Mohammed, the 7th century founder of Islam, once signed a 10-year peace treaty with the enemy Arabian tribe of Koreish. However, after only two years into the treaty, Mohammed's military position improved whereupon he tore up this "Hudibiyya (also spelled Khudaibiya) Agreement" and slaughtered the Koreishites. The Middle East today is littered with inter-Arab peace treaties, alliances and friendship accords, not one of which has ever prevented a war! This Law of Hudibiyya dates back to Muhammad and states clearly that "Muslims are permitted to lie and break agreements with non-Muslims." According to this precept, Arabs view an enemy?s readiness for peace as a weakness to be exploited. Violation of any signed accord they sign with infidels (or even fellow Muslims!) is "business as usual as soon as it becomes advantageous to do so. 216.239.35.100