07-20-2003, 05:24 PM
Quote:Sure, if the Arabs controlled Jerusalem.
Ahem, may I remind you that Jerusalem was ruled by others until the british left Israel? May I remind you that even though Israel controls jerusalem it's just on paper, there are 3 districts in Jerusalem, the Jewish district along with the ruins of a wall from Bait Hamikdash the Christian district with the church, forgot what the name is :) and the Muslim district along with Har Ha'Bait and the center stone, the holiest place for the jews (the place where Avraham almost sacrficed his son), now Jews and christians can go to each of their districts with no problem, problem is with the Muslim district where Jews cannot enter, for a city controlled by jews that can't even see the holiest place for the jewish religioun I don't think this control of Jerusalem is much.
Quote: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.
Even though there's religious zealotry in Israel (Hasids), they're a minority as small as the amount of Kurds in Israel (which is very small), they're not very liked among other jews as well
Quote:Hmmm, wasn't there a fair amount of terrorism involved in the Zionist movement, pre-modern-Israel?
Yep, it was a despised group by all the jews, nonetheless they never hurt civilians intentionally (always warned a good amount of time before exploding a civilian building, some times the british simply didn't listen) but don't get me wrong, I think that group made a bad name for all the jews (and a lot simply ignore/don't know it was a very small and very hated group...).
Quote:Like Palestine?
So the fact that Palestine never existed and havn't been officially created is nothing to justify that Israel does not recognize Palestine (Israel do recognize Palestinians though and may I remind that Palestine and a lot of other neighbouring countries do not recognize Israel) not to mention Israel agrees to let the Palestinians declare their independence.
Quote:What is different about these two cultures?
Way too much to list, like comparing Native africans to France (not meant to offend or imply anything) but I do believe that the entire thing of reversing the roles is pointless, you don't know what will happen if it was the opposite.
Quote:Can anyone see Jews teaching "Death to Arabs!" in their f**king schools
I'm sad to admit that there are racists in Israel that DO say Death to Arabs (and even has the IQ to buy a color spray and right it on walls...) but they are usually very young (1x-2x), not very popular (among everyone who can think which is a feature known to be not one of the best qualities of teenagers...) and they did not learn this from school, they learnt it from the TV where they spent a big portion of their life listening to the media reporting yet ANOTHER terrorist attack on civilians and some lack the understanding to see why people that dare break into civilians' houses and butcher babies, kids, women and men as if they were all a nasty cockroach running around your legs.
"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, and seal the hushed casket of my soul" - John Keats, "To Sleep"