subrosaDom
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ORIGINAL: BamaD FR If the Israelis would just be reasonable and march into the sea everything would be fine. They don't have to march. The Arab states have sworn to drive them there. Screen captures still RULE! Ya feel me? I find it odd that one quote uttered by an Arab leader, decades ago, is still rehashed and recycled, while numerous similarly hateful comments said by Israeli leaders go without note. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." - Yisrael Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum." "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978. I am not supporting one side over the other, as I previously stated, both sides have made similarly hateful, violent statements. Although, given the fierce "us versus them" mentality that this issue tends to garner, I am sure that some people will accuse me of doing otherwise, so let me be blunt and say, Hamas is no bueno. But neither is Israeli aggression... Ah darn, I can't be blunt. One quote? Perhaps you should start reading the translations of speeches that Arabs give in Arabic, not the taqqiya-inspired speeches they give in English. Hate, often genocidal, is the order of the day. Yes, Ben-Gurion said that. Have you read what Shimon Peres says? How about even the more conservative Netanyahu?Contrast what Israelis today say with the vitriol and hate coming from the Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular if you truly desire an understanding of what it is like to live there.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Nietzsche
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