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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3920)	11/20/2003 10:20:35 AM
From: steve kammerer	Respond to of 22250

Through July of this year, more than half of the Jewish emigres from Russia have chosen Germany as their destination.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3920)	11/20/2003 11:09:09 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 22250

You wrote:<font color=blue>"And those ugly Palestinians with dozens of passports who savagely want to drive them all to the sea!!!"<font color=black> Palestinians have been murdering Jewish families for many decades. After over fifty years of unwarranted Palestinian attacks against Jews, one might get the idea that the Palestinian people do not want to live in peace. Three years ago, before the Palestinian uprising, the Palestinian Arabs had a better standard of living than most Arabs throughout the Middle East, AND things were getting better for the Palestinian Arabs. Then Arafat and his goons started the uprising! If the Palestinian leaders had just worked towards peace, they would probably have their own state right now, be living in peace and prosperity, and thousands of people would not have been killed or wounded. As long as there are people like you to fuel the fires of racial and cultural hatred, there will never be peace in this world.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3920)	11/20/2003 11:20:27 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

MYTH : “Israel was responsible for the The 1973 Yom Kippur War.” FACT : "On October 6, 1973 — Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel's borders. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez Canal, fewer than 500 Israeli defenders were attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. Thrown onto the defensive during the first two days of fighting, Israel mobilized its reserves and eventually repulsed the invaders and carried the war deep into Syria and Egypt. The Arab states were swiftly resupplied by sea and air from the Soviet Union, which rejected U.S. efforts to work toward an immediate ceasefire. As a result, the United States belatedly began its own airlift to Israel. Two weeks later, Egypt was saved from a disastrous defeat by the UN Security Council, which had failed to act while the tide was in the Arabs' favor. The Soviet Union showed no interest in initiating peacemaking efforts while it looked like the Arabs might win. The same was true for UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. On October 22, the Security Council adopted Resolution 338 calling for "all parties to the present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately." The vote came on the day that Israeli forces cut off and isolated the Egyptian Third Army and were in a position to destroy it. Despite the Israel Defense Forces' ultimate success on the battlefield, the war was considered a diplomatic and military failure. A total of 2,688 Israeli soldiers were killed.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3920)	11/20/2003 11:37:45 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

You posted:<font color=blue>"Those figures show 760,000 Israeli citizens now live abroad."<font color=black> So? Millions of Arabs now live abroad. When Jews live abroad, they integrate into the country in which they live. Jews become productive parts of society. How about the Arabs that live abroad? How about this story: "Rue de Bon Pasteur, Muslim haven in heart of Marseille, illustrates political and social reality facing France, where Muslim population has now surged to seven percent of total, and about 17 percent in city itself; photo; map; much of Arab-Muslim population is not only alienated from mainstream France but also divided within by ethnicity, history, religiosity, politics and class; fundamentalist clerics in Marseille further divide people with aggressive messages that are appealing to vast underclass of young people living in crime-ridden high-rise buildings in isolated wastelands" query.nytimes.com