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Thread #148166   Message #3438158
Posted By: Steve Shaw
18-Nov-12 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Are Israeli leaders complete arseholes?
Subject: RE: BS: Are Israeli leaders complete arseholes?
After WW2, should Europeans of Jewish faith have been given their own nation WITHIN Europe..?

No. Why should anyone regard a religious state as a good thing?

However, what's done is done. Israel is here now, it's here to stay and we should not tolerate stupid talk of wiping it off the map, etc. Israel is full of ordinary people, Jews and non-Jews alike, who deserve peace, security and whatever prosperity they can muster. The politicians in Israel have persuaded their people that they are surrounded by hostile powers who are dying to eliminate them. This is simply not true (every problem Israel ever has with its neighbours is fuelled primarily by the Palestine issue), but hey, politicians are always at their most persuasive when they tell their people how they're protecting them from foreigners. Falklands factors and all that.

There are millions of Muslims in Europe. Should we give them their own nation?