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BENZ-LGB · #3 04-01-2003, 12:42 PM

pshibly writes in response to unkl300d's post:

If you wanna actually start to understand what the Palestinians are going through then i suggest you actually read up and educate yourself. You can start with a movie called "The Battle of Algers" Although its about the Algerian revolution, it accurately portrays what people feel like and how they are living under rule from an agressor, and its a mirror of the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Theres alot of other movies and books out there too. "Exodus" also shows this. So before you jump on the political bandwagon, realize that education is key.

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Your suggestions that unkld300d watch movies to "educate" himself about the Palestinian issue makes no sense. What would you suggest next? That we all watch "Gone With the Wind" to better understand the Civil War? Or that we watch "Tore, Tora, Tora" to understand the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? (Or for that matter, should we watch Disney's sanitized version?).

Israel is the only democracy in the region (Lebanon used to be fairly democratic until it was overrun by Syria). If Israel rejects UN's attempts to "solve" the Palestinian problem is only because the UN is controlled by 3rd world radical whose #1 goal is to harass the U.S. and Israel. BTW, these are the very same people who believe that the Jews control the world.

Unkl300d is correct in asserting that the lands currently occupied by Israel were, historically, occupied by the ancestors of the modern-day Israeli. Prior to 1948, modern-day Israel was just desert land, thousands of square miles of kitty litter (as a friend of mine described it). It was only after the Jews turned the land into a productive oasis, that everyone else developed a keen interest for it.

Unkl300d is also correct in stating that the ancient Babylonians, Saddam's claimed ancestors, invaded ancient Israel and took the Israelites as slaves. Would saddam do the same if given an opportunity? I have no doubt that he would.

Finally, unkl300d is correct in stating that the Arabs and Palestinians are only interested in UN resolutions that favor them, at Israel's expense. If Israel was only interested in land conquest, then Israel would not have returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, while at the same time expelling Jewish settlers from the peninsula. The PLO, on the other hand, refuses to rein in the homicide bombers who have stalled, and now killed, the peace process.

Instead of implying that unkl300d is "ignorant" of the facts, why don't you provide a few facts of your own, instead of rehashing the same hoary Arab and Palestinian propaganda.