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Thread #99577 Message #1996715
Posted By: dianavan
14-Mar-07 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: A Palestinian State?
Subject: RE: BS: A Palestinian State?
bb - I see nothing in that article about driving "the Jews from all of Palestine."
I see the word Jihad used many times. My understanding of the word means that you embrace a spiritual goal when confronting principles or ideologies that conflict with your own. Thats why its called a holy war. You choose to see that as a threat when, in fact, Jews have been doing that for centuries.
You also interpret wiping Israel off the map with a nuclear attack when even the articles you post explain that through migration, the Arab people could become the majority in Israel and replace Zionist political policy. Has it ever occurred to you that through mutual co-operation, Arabs and Jews might come up with something bigger and better?
You choose to read and interpret the words of Muslims as threatening to what you perceive to be a superior belief system without giving any consideration to the beliefs of the people who have occupied that land for centuries. European Jews in Israel have a more modern system of cultural beliefs but it doesn't always equate with superior. Why should their social/cultural belief system be forced down the throats of cultures idigenous to Israel?
Until you realize that you cannot exist in isolation and must share that land and allow Jews and Muslims to co-exist and grow together with mutual respect, you are part of the problem. Nobody can solve this problem for you. It has to be solved by Arabs and Jews together.
Attempting to convince you that there is any way other than war is futile.