Short update from the UK


Posted by Helena Cobban
August 16, 2003 2:20 PM EST | Link
Filed in Writing and publishing

I'm writing this from my sister's computer in England. Interested to see the numbers of ardently pro-Israel people posting comments on my last post, on the CSM column of mine that ran on Thursday (which they did under the next post here), and on the Israel/South Africa comparison piece.

When I have the time and the bandwidth, I'll sit down and write some reactions to some of those. But it strikes me the level of some of the discourse/analysis there is really amazingly low. Accusations of me being a Jew-hater or the whole of France being a Jew-hating country really seem inane. As does the apparent description of Palestinians as Jordanian and Egyptian immigrants to "Judea and Samaria."

Hey guys, let's try to keep things reasonable and respectful?



Comments
Comment from... Bleeding Heart Conservative, at August 17, 2003 05:28 PM:

When you get around to replying, perhaps you can explain the "right of return."

5 Arab nations intent on pogrom, alerted the Arab settlers (from Egypt and Jordan) in the tran-Jordan, British mandate of Palestine.
These Arabs evacuated, sparing themselves and leaving their Jewish neighbors to annihilation. They expected to return after the Jews were exterminated by Hitler's ersatz allies. Little did they expect the Naqba, the victory of Israel over their armies.

They forfeited all rights to the land at that moment.

And ever since, the defeated Arabs have whined and seethed, and claimed victimhood.

And you, and your readers, have bought into their lies, their victimhood, and earnestly cling to your stubborn delusion, that somehow the Israelites, hanging on to the sliver of land they've been given in the vast Muslim sea, are oppressors.

The "Palestinians" are proxies in a battle by Muslim zealots against the Jews, who are described in the sacred terror-manual as "sons of pigs and monkeys."

You've chosen your side, and you've chosen your fate: because when the Jews are gone, the Muslims will choose a new target: the deluded West.

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