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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11851)	1/25/2006 8:11:33 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Len is into all types of revisionist history. In his world Palestine was a thriving arab state until the jews came along. In reality Palestine was apart of the arab nation that had some cities of religious significance in its midst. Of course the religions that these sites were most important to were christianity and judaism, not islam except for Jerusalem. If there really was a vote that offered palestinians numerous choices, they would probably still opt to join their bretheren in jordan or even become part of a democratic, pluralistic israel. Obviously its too late for the latter as history as chastened the Jews against ever being a minority, especially within an arab state. mike

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11851)	1/25/2006 9:04:15 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

well, I know this isnt the middle east, but I think this has some meaning: U.S. NAVY STRIKES SOMALI PIRATES January 25, 2006 The Middle East Newsline reports: “For the first time in years, the U.S. Navy launched an operation against pirates who operate off the coast of Somalia. U.S. officials said the navy has increased patrols along the coast of Somalia, an Arab League state, in an effort to end piracy. On Jan. 13, Somali pirates attacked Western ships that moved through the Red Sea. Over the weekend, the navy captured pirates off the coast of Somalia, which has not had a central government since 1990. The navy said the USS Winston S. Churchill fired warning shots and then boarded the suspected dhow, which contained light arms, about 80 kilometers from the coast. ‘After receiving a report of an attempted act of piracy, the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill [DDG 81] and other U.S. naval forces in the area located the suspected vessel and shadowed it through the night and into the morning hours of Saturday,’ the U.S. Navy said in a statement from the Bahraini capital of Manama…”

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11851)	1/30/2006 11:21:51 AM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Hawk, "It was not until AFTER 1967 that the idea of a Palestinian national identity really took hold amongst the people. And that was after they were abandoned by their Jordanian and Egyptian dominars." And your point is what? A statue of limitations had been breached and the Palestinians no longer had a right? I am wondering if you have ever read "One Palestine Complete, Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate" by Ton Segev? bestprices.com Segev makes it known in great detail how the foreigners (Western Jews) were undermining the Palestinians at every trun and the British tried to be fair, but in the end fled leaving the decision of partition to the League of Nations. The British knew what was coming and wanted no part of it. They let the Palestinian Jews, Moslems, and Christians down. They were derelict in their duties. len