Comments on: Taking Sides In The Middle East

By: Tuttle

Tuttle — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:51 +0000

I agree with the other posters. Quite frankly, it will be impossible to understand what's happening in the middle east in general, and Israel in particular, unless one has a thorough understanding of the Bible. Everything is addressed there. I might offer a couple suggestions that also speak to this.

1. Check out the book "From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters.
2. Check out the numerous resources by Chuck Missler available at Koinonia House. See http://www.khouse.org

Blessings.

By: Siarlys_Jenkins

Siarlys_Jenkins — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:34:09 +0000

Honor killings were also big in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s, probably for years before that. In the 1950s, most Republicans wanted nothing to do with Isreal, or for that matter letting Jews into their exclusive clubs. Don't forget that Israel was founded by socialists, with the support of all three of Joseph Stalin's votes in the UN. And I really wonder about that photo: what are Arabic speaking women in an Arabic speaking country running around with signs written in English for? I had the same doubt about a news broadcast from Yugoslavia, in which a woman speaking English with an eastern European accent told a crowd of Serbian-speaking Serbian nationalists "God will redeem the Serbs." Now that is fodder for conspiracy theories about the media.

That said, we all know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem openly invited former Nazis to find refuge with him, as have some elements in the Syrian government. But its not racial. Its not, "Arabs are like this, Jews are like that." Some deeply religious Jewish communities in Israel are getting to be a lot like their Arab neighbors, except that they shoot at each other — but then, Arab communities have been shooting at each other for centuries, when there weren't common targets to shoot at. And some Jews in Israel are still leftists. And some of those commie-loving Jews in America have turned conservative. Etc. Etc. Etc. Cut the stereotypes, please.

By: Sinapus

Sinapus — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:04:24 +0000

That the missile lobbers tend to launch from their own civilian neighborhoods, guaranteeing that return fire or attempts to destroy their launchers and ammo dumps (also in civilian buildings) will result in dead civilians is another reason to question the pro-Palestinian side.

By: The Great Satan™

The Great Satan™ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:05:21 +0000

I misread the quote, Ben Gurion is right, that is the way arabs would see it. It doesn’t make it true, but the arabs believe what they want to believe.

By: The Great Satan™

The Great Satan™ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:02:13 +0000

======They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country.====

Ben Gurion would have never uttered such nonsense since it is historically false. Whoever attributed that quote to Ben Gurion probably fabricated it.

By: Tennwriter

Tennwriter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:39:51 +0000

I'm not Jewish. I'm a Viking and a Celt. And yet, I support Israel.

By: John_McClain

John_McClain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:48:56 +0000

Let him rave on, that men will know him mad. …

By: John_McClain

John_McClain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:35:25 +0000

They have chosen another religion. Liberalism

By: John_McClain

John_McClain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:34:17 +0000

Same here, I was expecting TEHSTUPID long ago.

By: John_McClain

John_McClain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:29:24 +0000

Well said in a concise manner.