Blade_Runner wrote:
An 8000 square mile spit of land populated by 9 million people, 6 million of whom are Jews, surrounded by 3.5 million square miles populated by 336 million Muslims, the majority of whom are anti-Semitic and who most likely wish Hitler had succeeded. Not difficult to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.
“The Arab world is the last bastion of unbridled, unashamed, unhidden and unbelievable anti-Semitism. Hitlerian myths get published in the popular press as incontrovertible t***hs. The Holocaust either gets minimized or denied....How the Arab world will ever come to terms with Israel when Israelis are portrayed as the devil incarnate is hard to figure out.”
Richard Cohen.
“We have found books with passages that are so anti-Semitic, that if they were published in Europe, their publishers would be brought up on anti-r****m charges.”
Francois Zimeray, French lawyer and European Parliament member
“Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday [May 5] offered a vivid, if vile, demonstration of why he and his government are unworthy of respect or good relations with the United States or any other democratic country. Greeting Pope John Paul II in Damascus, Mr. Assad launched an attack on Jews that may rank as the most ignorant and crude speech delivered before the pope in his two decades of travel around the world. Comparing the suffering of the Palestinians to that of Jesus Christ, Mr. Assad said that the Jews ‘tried to k**l the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and k**l the Prophet Muhammad.’ With that libel, the Syrian president stained both his country and the pope....”
WaPo
Prior to 1921, there was no Palestinian culture, no nationality or race of people called Palestinians. Before 632 CE, there were no Muslims in the Middle East or anywhere else on earth. 18 centuries before the rise of Islam, the Hebrews (Jews) arrived in the land of Canaan (the Promised Land or the Holy Land or the Levant or Palestine).
Who built Jerusalem? Who built the City of David? Who built the great temple in Jerusalem? Sure as hell wasn't Palestinians.
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And are you for returning all lands to the people who dwelled there 2 millenia ago???