07-20-2003, 05:35 AM
Quote:Does anyone seriously think that the Middle East would still be such a stinking, twelfth-century cesspit? Does anyone believe Jews would have launched multiple wars of aggression to totally destroy the tiny Arab presence in their midst?
Sure, if the Arabs controlled Jerusalem.
Quote:Can anyone see Jews teaching "Death to Arabs!" in their f**king schools
Sure, there's a lot of religious zealotry in Israel. It doesn't take a huge leap of faith to allow the possibility of a demagogic annihilistic movement taking hold.
Quote:wealthy Jews worldwide setting up "foundations" to pay the families of terrorists who carry out attacks against Arabs
Hmmm, wasn't there a fair amount of terrorism involved in the Zionist movement, pre-modern-Israel?
Quote:Jewish governments refusing to even recognize the existence of their neighbor?
Like Palestine?
Quote:What is different about these two cultures?
Quite a lot, but there's enough similarity to make simplistic role-reversals fairly meaningless.