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To: rrufff who wrote (5554)	1/21/2004 6:12:34 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Speaking of Isra'Eli "civilians", in the reports of the Palestinian woman blowing herself up at a West Bank checkpoint, your crack reporters failed to say that those Isra'Elis killed were occupying soldiers. The Americans are being fed a daily dose of half-truths and propaganda as it regards fascist Isra'El and their mafioso Prime Minister. len

To: rrufff who wrote (5554)	1/21/2004 8:19:39 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 6945

Amazingly, Jews and Arabs were friends and allies once. likud.nl From the article: "Jewish relations with Arabs and Muslims are as old as Islam, and as intimate as were their relations with Christians in the foundational years of Christianity. Jewish presence and contributions in the making of Islamic civilization were of no lesser significance than in the making of the modern world. Jews in pre-modern times were relatively more secure, as a people, within the domain of Islam than they were in Europe. Bernard Lewis and S.D. Goitein, just two of many Jewish scholars, have explored this complex history with great care. Lewis writes in The Jews of Islam, "For most of the Middle Ages the Jews of Islam comprised the greater and more active part of the Jewish people ... With few exceptions, whatever was creative and significant in Jewish life, happened in Islamic lands." Similarly, Goitein, in Jews and Arabs, admirably catalogues the intensive contacts of the two Semitic peoples through the centuries in both good and bad times. So what happened? How can the present situation be explained? ... Jews, as a people, despite the terrible injustices inflicted on them which finally culminated in the Holocaust, survived and succeeded. Arabs, as a people, despite the resources gifted them by nature and the support received from others in modern times, on the whole displayed an incapacity to assimilate into the modern world. The widening gap between success and failure of the two peoples in meeting their respective goals requires explaining. ..."