Little Hawk says "I'm suggesting that the Israelis, ever since World War II, have been getting even with the Nazis by fighting with Muslims." Actually it was the Muslim nations that surround Israel that declared war on the new born Israel NOT the other way around. (I am not sure but I believe that not all of those states have rescinded that declaration of war which was intended to wipe out the state of Israel). We constantly hear on UK news programs that Palestinian or other Muslim terrorists have blown up a bus carrying Israeli school children or some similar act. This is stated but there is little judgement about it. The following day the Israeli soldiers attack a "terrorist stronghold" and some civilians get killed too. There is international horror and prime-ministers and presidents get hot under the collar and accuse the Israelis of attrocity. Seems to me that we sometimes do find ourselves a little one-sided in our judgements. Muslim leaders are regularly assuring us that theirs is a religion of peace. During the first Gulf War I taught a class that was about 80% Muslim. They confided in me that they were being taught to hate Jews - and that this teaching was given at the mosque. Your statement about the Jews getting their own back by fighting Muslims seems rather strange to me. Frank L.
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