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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2419)	10/17/2003 1:52:44 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

what a cowardly statement; just say it len, you are talking out of your ass. you havnet a clue as to the situation there, and you are just an arab propagandist

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2419)	10/17/2003 2:09:07 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

"In the early 1940, a storm over children's playground in Safed seemed to represent the entire conflict over Palestine. The playground, in the yard of a Jewish school, was paid for by the Guggenheimer Foundation, a branch of Hadassah, the American Zionist women's organization. There were a few swings and a sandbox. Arab children soon started coming to the playground, and the Jewish parents decided to prevent them from playing there. The head of Safed's Jewish community, Moshe Podhortz, supported them. There followed a flurry of correspondence about issues of principle. Representatives of the Guggenheimer Foundation wrote that closing the playground to Arab children violated the philanthropist's will, and besides, something larger was at stake, of importance to the "entire Yishuv: contact between Jewish and Arab children would bring the "two communities" closer. The Foundation's letter referred to the happy fact that the Arab children had come to the playground of their own volition. "This in our opnion, is the correct and natural way and it is not right to close the doors in their faces." After all, the Zionist movement's declared policy was one of peace. Therefore the playground should remain open at least to small Arab children, up to the age of thirteen. Podhorz, later the town's mayor, also addressed the question of principle. "If you are concerned with keeping the will of the late Bertha Guggenheimer, we are no less concerned with keeping a will more ancient and more important: to educate our children in the spirit of the Torah and Jewish ethics, and to keep them away from bad companions so that they not learn their ways" He refused to allow small Arab children to play in the sandbox, citing "the corrupt character of these children from the very beginning of their childhood...even in the ages between zero and ten not only are their mouths always full of filth and rude language, but they are also incapable of perverted acts." "One Palestine, Complete, Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate", by Tom Segev