18th April 2004, 5:05 PM
The thing is, Israel has tried for peace so many times. Wasn't it Yitzhak Rabin (or was it his successor) who was prepared to make incredible cessations to the Palestinians, and Arafat refused them all? The Palestinians and their neighbors do not want to co-exist. Frankly, Israel has always been the side more likely to negotiate and compromise, and all it has earned them is repeated intifadas. I don't blame them for not wanting to try anymore. It got to the point where they realized the only way to solve this problem is end the threat.
About the Christian/Jewish relationship, it's a good point. I never bought into the main Christian beef with Judaism anyway, blaming them for the death of Christ, sadly, for centuries people did. It's just that, for two thousand years the Jews have been hunted almost constantly and persecuted. They finally get their Promised Land, for which they probably have the oldest valid claim, and everyone around them wants them dead still. Those people need friends, and for the life of me I cannot understand why even in America so many people consider them terrorists and support the Palestinian cause. In a culture, both American and, to a greater extent, European, of increasingly-oppressive political correctness, hating Jews is still tolerated.
About the Christian/Jewish relationship, it's a good point. I never bought into the main Christian beef with Judaism anyway, blaming them for the death of Christ, sadly, for centuries people did. It's just that, for two thousand years the Jews have been hunted almost constantly and persecuted. They finally get their Promised Land, for which they probably have the oldest valid claim, and everyone around them wants them dead still. Those people need friends, and for the life of me I cannot understand why even in America so many people consider them terrorists and support the Palestinian cause. In a culture, both American and, to a greater extent, European, of increasingly-oppressive political correctness, hating Jews is still tolerated.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
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