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Skriven 2012-08-18 09:26:42 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
   Kommentar till text 2484 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
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Ross Cassell wrote to Bjorn Felten on Friday August 17 2012 at 19:11:

RN>>> Have you forgotten the Arabs want to eradicate Israel?

BF>> Have you forgotten who cast the first stone here?

RC> 1948!!!

Depends on what he meant with "here". Using his usual twisted logic, be was
probably referring to his forced retirement as editor and "moderator" of
FIDONEWS. Have you ever known him to stick to a subject?

RC> I believe the tanks rolled into Israel (not from) the minute Israel
RC> got recognized by US/USSR et all..

Sure did. And got their asses kicked - although it was touch and go for a
while, whether Israel could survive the onslaught or not.

The main lesson to be learned is that you may try to exterminate a religious or
racial minority (as in Germany), but that if you fail to do it completely,
those left will fight to the death to prevent a repeat performance.

In this case, the Arabs (who lost) had no problems pulling back into their own
countries. If the Israelis had lost, there would have been a bloodbath to make
Auschwitz look like a children's playground. And the Israelis knew that.

RC> Now I do believe the 67 conflict was pre-emptive on their part.

More or less. There was intelligence at the time that the Arabs were preparing
a massive build-up of military forces to attempt still another major attack.
And the forces were so overpowering that they might have been successful if the
Israelis hadn't acted pre-emptively.

Don't kid yourself, there is absolutely NOTHING a country will not do to
preserve it's own existence. And that includes Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands
and whatever country you care to mention. If naked survival is threatened,
anything goes.

RC> Being the proud decendant of Hagar the horrible, you should be able to
RC> appreciate pre-emptive strikes into other territories!!

You mean like the raids the Vikings made on England back in the "good old days"
when "real men" had to rape at least 24 virgins to demonstrate their manhood?

;-))))

Cheers, Bob

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