tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post2104721836315627020..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Straight for the JugularMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-83098642576467746562011-06-16T08:10:05.535+10:002011-06-16T08:10:05.535+10:00Total bullshit, of course, Hasbaroid, but were it ...Total bullshit, of course, Hasbaroid, but were it true, isn't it interesting that, in all my readings on the origins of the Zionist movement and the Balfour Declaration, I've been able to find no reference whatever to the 'danger' posed by the supposedly anti-Semitic hordes inhabiting Palestine at the time. <br /><br />Quite the contrary, this is what we get in the BD: "... It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-69446368740537099432011-06-16T03:09:48.342+10:002011-06-16T03:09:48.342+10:00Violence of Arabs against Jews has begun hundreds ...Violence of Arabs against Jews has begun hundreds of years before the word "Zionism" even existed. I have seen written records of such violence in almost every year since about 1850, when European newspapers started to report news from "Palestine". The only reason the Arabs now "threatened... and then did nothing" is because Jews finally have a Jewish state with a Jewish army. We finally learned to fight back.אראל סגלhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01139372937906765613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-14439255517104650122011-06-15T18:24:51.995+10:002011-06-15T18:24:51.995+10:00Maybe, if Israel withdraws from occupied Palestini...Maybe, if Israel withdraws from occupied Palestinian land, allows the refugees of 48 & 67 to return, ceases visiting actual blood, thunder and ruin on the Palestinians, and opts for genuine peace and reconciliation in the context of a unitary, binational, and apartheid-free state, you Israelis will start feeling normal.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-85096620430165648222011-06-15T15:10:53.772+10:002011-06-15T15:10:53.772+10:00"how the Arab nationalist always threatened b..."how the Arab nationalist always threatened blood, thunder, and ruin and then did nothing while the Israelis talked softly, spoke of peace and reconciliation, and struck straight for the jugular"<br /><br />Maybe, if the Arabs stop threatening blood, thunder, and ruin, we Israelis will be less paranoid?אראל סגלhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01139372937906765613noreply@blogger.com