To: Dayuhan who wrote (28541 ) 2/9/2004 3:13:40 AM From: Nadine Carroll Read Replies (1) | Respond to They were granted the privilege of establishing a State, a privilege that had never been granted to anyone before under remotely similar circumstances, and has never been granted to anyone since under remotely similar built their state, for seventy years of Zionist development before 1948, reclaiming desert, marshland and scrub in a backwater province of Syria. First under the Turks, then under the British. Only after their state was built did the UN partition the land when the Brits threw up their hands and tossed the problem to the UN. A state is not a patch of land, Stephen. It is an idea in the heads of a people. The Zionists had it. The Arabs of Palestine, who at the time did not yet call themselves Palestinians, did not have the idea, and instead of claiming their state, called on the Arab armies to slaughter the Jews.The double standard you speak of emanates from a small number of angst-ridden intellectuals with no influence over anything
