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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (20237)	12/2/2002 7:25:03 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

<< Isra'El has worked themselves into a corner and their only reaction is to try to shoot their way out of it, much like the American colonists did. >> And, shoot their way out, they did! Picture yourself as a Jew in Israel in 1948. Most of your family has just been wiped out in the Holocaust. You fled to Israel, as many Zionists did, because you no longer trust anyone else, but fellow Jews, for your safety. Israel had been set up as a place for Jews to escape persecution, raise a family and live in peace. But, the Jews are in a corner, (as you so put it). There were about 600,000 Jews, at that time, and 100 million hostile Arabs, in the surrounding Arab lands. ===> "The Arabs had no difficulty obtaining all the arms they needed. In fact, Jordan's Arab Legion was armed and trained by the British, and led by a British officer. At the end of 1948 and beginning of 1949, British RAF planes flew with Egyptian squadrons over the Israel-Egypt border. On January 7, 1949, Israeli planes shot down four of the British aircraft. The Jews, on the other hand, were forced to smuggle weapons, principally from Czechoslovakia." <=== us-israel.org The small rag-tag army of Jewish patriots was able to defeat the hordes of Arab mongels! ===> "The Arab war to destroy Israel failed. Indeed, because of their aggression, the Arabs wound up with less territory than they would have had if they had accepted partition." <=== So........ Israel grew in size, survived an all out war by Arab mongrels, and was, indeed, a place for persecuted Jews to control their own destiny! Great, isn't it?