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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (9851)	2/18/2003 3:58:09 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

Robert, I am amazed that someone with your Zionist tendencies knows so little history of the area. During the 1920s and 1930s, and somewhat into the 40s, Jews came to Palestine and purchased land from Arabs living there. This was the only period when the two peoples lived in relative peace. The armed conflict began at the close of World War II, when the Israelis decided to forcibly take land and then claimed it for themselves by right of conquest. The ensuing refugee problem created by those acts has never been resolved. No wonder some people who have lived in refugee camps for over two generations are somewhat bewildered and have totally lost hope. When a group of people lose hope, they're ready for anything, including making themselves into human bombs. The notion that ONLY Israel has a right to this land may have a basis in the Bible, but not in modern day secular societies, which seem to be the most effective in governing. Zionism, when translated into wars to drive out all other inhabitants of a so-called "promised land," is simply not a legitimate approach to living in this day and age. No one condones Arab terrorists. No one should condone the Israeli army shooting up Arab residences and getting the same results as terrorists. If Israel isn't willing to learn this lesson, then we are in for decades more terrorism, and it won't come only from Iraq or Al Qaeda. Art