[quote]jsbrook wrote:
And what exactly would you have JTF? The BRITISH expelled the Palestinians and chose to give the land to the Israelis. It WAS a mistake. There were much better ways they could’ve handled things. What are the Israelis supposed to do now?
They’ve been there for 50+ years. Where would you have them live? In past failed peace efforts, they’ve offered to give up 90% of the legitimately disputed lands. America is pro-Israel for a good reason. Whatever inequities were done in the past, Palestinians now make unreasonable demands. America recognizes this. [/quote]
Being that the entire premise for the establishment of Israel is that God promised the land to the Jews - it would be pretty hard to come up with any “reality” based solution.
For people so “concerned” about the survival of the Jewish race, I personally couldn’t think of a more stupid solution than to gather them all up into one small, convenient spot, surrounded by a few billion of their mortal enemies.
But I digress to a great passage from “Tom Sawyer Abroad” by Mark Twain:
[i]“Huck Finn, do you mean to tell me you don’t know what a crusade is?”
“No,” says I, "I don’t.
“A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim.”
“Which Holy Land?”
“Why, THE Holy Land – there ain’t but one.”
“What do we want of it?”
“Why, can’t you understand? It’s in the hands of the paynim, and it’s our duty to take it away from them.”
“How did we come to let them git hold of it?”
“We didn’t come to let them git hold of it. They always had it.”
“Why, Tom, then it must belong to them, don’t it?”
“Why of course it does. Who said it didn’t?”
I studied over it, but couldn’t seem to git at the right of it, no way. I says: “It’s too many for me, Tom Sawyer. If I had a farm and it was mine, and another person wanted it, would it be right for him to --”
“Oh, shucks! you don’t know enough to come in when it rains, Huck Finn. It ain’t a farm, it’s entirely different. You see, it’s like this. They own the land, just the mere land, and that’s all they DO own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven’t any business to be there defiling it. It’s a shame, and we ought not to stand it a minute. We ought to march against them and take it away from them.”
“Why, it does seem to me it’s the most mixed-up thing I ever see! Now, if I had a farm and another person --”
“Don’t I tell you it hasn’t got anything to do with farming? Farming is business, just common low-down business: that’s all it is, it’s all you can say for it; but this is higher, this is religious, and totally different.”
“Religious to go and take the land away from people that owns it?”
“Certainly; it’s always been considered so.” [/i]