SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Hawkmoon who wrote (110777)8/9/2003 11:40:10 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
The zionists have been known to call the indigenous 'arabs', correct me if i'm wrong on that .... they likely find their roots in a number of tribes, going way back, since Palestine has always been a crossroads

The fact that the turks ruled the area does not give automatic carte blanche to the next conqueror to do so, unless you subscribe to the neocons' might makes right principle

Israel has just been making changes to its citizenship law, that give the lie to its claims of being a 'multi-cultural society based upon democratic values and inalienable human rights' ..... or rather, would give the lie to such claims, had they ever been true, but they're not, the whole concept is to set up a jewish state on lands for centuries muslim, and to do whatever it takes to wipe out the muslim content, and promote the jewish

It was bad enough having one whacko religion in a land where it's too hot to think straight, shoving another one hostile to the first into the mix is just insane, a straight-out recipe for violence ..... violence is inherent in the zionist concept, as Steven once pointed out so eloquently -

' If you want the root of the Palestine situation, you can find it in one word: Judenstadt.
.....
Violence, therefore, was implicit in Zionism from the very beginning.
'

Message 18311394

Jochen has since straightened us out on the spelling, which should be Judenstaat [Stadt - 'city', Staat = 'state']



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (110777)8/10/2003 12:54:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Does this include Palestinians? Or are Palestinians Arabs too? I thought they pre-dated Arab intrusions into the region?

"Arab" isn't an ethnic definition; it's a linguistic definition. You're an Arab if you speak Arabic.

Ethnically, the Palestinians are a total mix of everybody who ever tramped through the region, I think.