Two Palestines, anyone?

Submitted by Ed Melik, Esq. (United States), Jul 1, 2007 at 14:50

In response to Moshe's rebuttal to my response to other comments on Daniel Pipes.Org., I must fully agree with Moshe about the miserable failure of the selfish and decadent Arabs who didn't do much to overcome the Palestinians plight of poverty, misery and helplessness.

However, the misery, the sufferings, the humiliations, the confiscations of the Palestinian land, destruction of their ancestral homes, collective punishment of helpless masses to terrorize them for the purpose of them them flee for their children's lives, and an unending apartheid regime forced upon the entire population of Palestine is, in no shape or form a result of the selfish petro-dollar decadent Arabs. Israel's total disregard and shameless contempt of UN's resolutions after resolutions and our doubly shameless American government's repeated oppositions to all such Security Council's resolutions that we trumpeted loudly for self serving and criminal invasions of other countries under a so called "full support of the and international community" i.e., illegal and criminal invasion and continued occupation of Iraq for America's mega oil corporations etc., is no excuse for the people of the nation of Israel to implement and enforce the same atrocities and tortures and collective punishment they were subjected to for centuries by the West in particular.

Palestinians did not start the 2nd. world war neither did they collaborate with the Nazi policies like our American and many Europeans did. Then why Palestinians must pay the price for the evils of the West by expelling the Jews and forced them to occupy the land of Palestine. If the legitimate basis of "returning to the promised land" was the premise and based on such false premise state Israel was created then the entire territories of the United States of America should be reverted back to the Native Americans.

By the way, Native Americans did not abandoned their ancestral land for greener pastures by going around the world to make foreign countries their homes as did the Jews and it was not 2000 years ago that the Native Americans lost their entire country to the newcomers... It only took the Europeans less than 50 years to start the extermination and forced expulsions of the Natives. In a way our American history is a bit similar to what Israel has based its territorial claims.

As far as billions of petro-dollar that you seem to claim that were infused in the Palestine by the Arabs is totally false. If the Arabs would have given few hundred millions to the Palestinian causes it would've been a different story. Unlike Israel that has received over 2 trillion dollars so far since its creation along with the most advanced military technology to spy not only on the Palestinians but on each and every Arab state. So I think no matter how you slice the pie, the blame squarely lies on Israeli side.

No PR or the self fabricated lies and propaganda, no network of world-wide high power supporters of Israel beating the drum of disinformation could justify what Israel has been doing since it's inception and continues to do so today. You don't have to read the memoirs of Yasir Arafat but read the racially charged and hateful speeches and beliefs of the founding fathers of Israel to see what really the founding fathers and today's apartheid regime openly professed and continue to profess and practice.

Our disgust of the Gulf States Arabs and their short sightedness does not in any shape or form compels us to look the other way when the intelligentsia of Israel knows well that a great majority of Israeli policies are very similar to the Nazi's and Stalin's method that they themselves were subjected upon to. ...

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