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Skriven 2006-09-22 14:35:11 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 22595 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
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MIMI GALLANDT -> JOHN HULL wrote:
 MG> John Hull wrote:

 JH>> LEE LOFASO -> ALL wrote:
 LL>>> Hello Everybody,

 MG>>>>> In their 1300 years this has not changed. That is where the
 MG>>>>> expression "conversion by sword" came from?

 SH>>>> I read this morning that during July and August, Shiites and
 JH>> Sunni  LL> killed
 SH>>>> more than 6,500 of their fellow countrymen in Iraq.  Many were
 JH>> tortured.

 LL>>> Several American soldiers were also killed.  Needlessly.

 SH>>>> Imagine for a second, given the chance, what those butchers
 SH>>>> would to to the people of Israel.  Just try to imagine it.

 LL>>> Iraqis will remain in Iraq.
 LL>>> Israelis will flee to America.
 LL>>> Palestinians we reclaim Palestine.

 JH>> There is no such thing as a Palestinian.  Its a madeup name for a
 JH>> madeup  ethnic group that didn't exist prior to 1918.

 MG> Actually prior to that time only Jews self identified that way. Know how
 MG> we know there's no such things as "palestinians"? The Arabs told us:

 MG> "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the
 MG> Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was
 MG> for centuries part of Syria."
 MG> - Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937

 MG> "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria... politically, the Arabs
 MG> of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate
 MG> political entity."
 MG> - The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations
 MG> submitted this in a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947

 MG> "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
 MG> - Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, to the UN Security
 MG> Council

 MG> "There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians
 MG> and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political
 MG> reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity.... yes,
 MG> the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical
 MG> purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the
 MG> continuing battle against Israel."
 MG> - Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of
 MG> its Executive Council (Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977)

 MG> "The people are in great need of a 'myth' to fill their consciousness
 MG> and imagination...."
 MG> - Musa Alami, 1948

 MG> "Palestine has never existed... as an autonomous entity. There is no
 MG> language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian
 MG> culture.... There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by
 MG> Palestinians.... Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from
 MG> Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis,
 MG> etc.... Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle
 MG> East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass.
 MG> But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is
 MG> ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today.... No matter how
 MG> many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough."
 MG> - from "Myths of the Middle East", Joseph Farah, Arab-American editor
 MG> and journalist, WorldNetDaily.Com, 11 October 2000

 MG> "I hereby propose that all the Arabs of Palestine will leave and be
 MG> divided up amongst the neighbouring Arab countries. In exchange for
 MG> this, all the Jews living in Arab countries will leave and come to
 MG> Palestine."
 MG> - Mojli Amin, Arab Defence Committee for Palestine, 1939


If you have not gotten a copy of this book for yourself already, I highly
recommend "From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over
Palestine" by Joan Peters.  It has been a national bestseller since it was
published in 1984, and is currently in its 8th printing.  You can get it from
the web store of WorldNetDaily.com.  It is the best explanation of the issue
I've ever found.

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