To: sea_urchin who wrote (11551 ) 7/15/2006 11:12:45 AM From: Machaon Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250 === "In case you didn't know, I'm a white South African and we had exactly the same problem in SA as Israel has in the Mid East, namely a foreign culture and a different race in a region which is totally dominated by a black (negroid) race and non-Western culture." === Your entire statement has little historical fact to it. The situation in Palestine, where the Arabs have been trying to exterminate the Jews for 60+ years, is totally different than what happened in your country. First of all, Israel is a separate country from the West Bank, which was part of Jordan, and Gaza, which was part of Egypt. The United Nations partitioned the area into two portions, one, which was the most better portion went to the Arabs. The other portion, or partition, which was larger but mostly desert, went to Jews. The Jews accepted their partition, and the Arabs rejected their partition and attacked the Jews, trying to murder, rape, maim and drive out ALL Jews from the area. The Arab world has been trying to murder and drive out ALL Jews from the Middle East well before Israel, and ever since. You're crying and weeping over a relatively small number of Arabs who chose to leave their homes in Palestine, and were not driven out, but you ignore the thousands of years that Jews lived in their area, and you ignore the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were driven out of the Arab countries and into Palestine. 140,000 Jews driven out of Algeria 75,000 Jews driven out of Egypt 100,000 Jews driven out of Iran 150,000 Jews driven out of Iraq 20,000 Jews driven out of Lebanon 38,000 Jews driven out of Libya 260,000 Jews driven out of Morocco 30,000 Jews driven out of Syria 105,000 Jews driven out of Tunisia 55,000 Jews driven out of Yemen Your post shows that you have NO KNOWLEDGE of the history of Palestine/Israel. You parrot the normal, racist antiJewish propaganda that is repeated over and over again by mindless Internet racists, who can't think for themselves.