Monday Dec 10, 2007
Posted by David Harris
Let me see if I get this straight. Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, summarily dismissed the prospect of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.
His reasoning? "No state in the world connects its national identity to its religious identity." That, of course, is utterly preposterous. What, for example, do Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen have in common? You guessed it. Islam is the official religion, though many, such as Malaysia, have significant non-Muslim minorities.
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Mushma Oule, Beersheva, Israel: Author misses the point. In the 1970s/80s--2 mil. Christians & animists killed by the Sudanese Arabs pushing south; in just the last decade 400,000 Christians forced from their homes in Iraq; everywhere now in the Arab-Islamic world Christians & all ancient minorities being squeezed---in Egypt, Lebanon, Bethlehem---all trying to escape. So itÂ’s not just 800,000 Jews were kicked out in the 1930s-60s. But the traditional hatred of Jews/Israel as the source of all evil in the world allows the Christian world not to lift a finger to help their brethren. Now they can sleep the sleep of the just.
du yisa, shenzhen china: With all due respect, Aaron, your comment makes no sense. The existence of early skirmishes in no way alters the fact that the Arab campaign was an openly stated attempt at genocide. Conversely, no evidence whatsoever has been shown of this having been the Jewish objective. Their military objective was to secure a sovereign state, not displace or annihilate another population. In fact, their authorities accepted a further partition of the Palestinian Mandate, to allow yet another Arab nation - which the Arabs rejected. Arab refugees are a result of Arab aggression, pure and simple.
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