On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:07:20 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:02:26 -0600, Ignoramus25939
wrote:

On 2010-12-05, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:37:31 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 05:20:44 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Dec 4, 8:10?pm, Rich Grise wrote:
...
Of course, if they had any gratitude for being rescued from Hitler, they
certainly have a weird way of expressing it - the first thing they did
when they got their own country was starting to attack their neighbors
because they wanted to take over more territory.
... Rich

The 1948 was was considerably more complicated than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Legion

And dont forget this bit of butchery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre

Look at the 3 dates. Which preceded which?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Dawayima_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

But isn't this simply more proof that these folks have been after each
other's throats for thousands of years? Can't we all just get along?


This is not true. They were only at each other's throats since the
20th century.

Are you sure? A quick google "jew arab hostilities origin" gave me
this: http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/persecution.html
It doesn't appear to be just a simple popular myth.

True enough. As I said..over the long term..they got along well
enough..but...shrug...there have been enough pograms and whatnot to make
it bad at times.

We are talking about 600+ yrs here...not the last 60 yrs

Gunner

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