Be Careful About Calling Other People Ignorant

Submitted by Richard H. Shulman (United States), Dec 13, 2011 at 19:35

In response to the self-named "Palestinian" who calls other readers discriminatory and ignorant, be careful about calling other people ignorant.

You compared American states, which are not nations, with the Palestinian Authority Arabs, who purport to constitute one. Not comparable.

You assert that "Palestinians" lived in Palestine for thousands of years with a unique culture. Actually,the Jewish nation did, no other nation had a country there, Arabs occupied the area only 1,400 years ago and took centuries to Arabize most of the natives, and still is not significantly distinct from neighboring Arab states.

You write that Arabs fought for 600 yeas to liberate Jerusalem from the crusaders. But the crusaders were ousted in a fraction of that time.

You refer to the last war in Lebanon, which a leftist Israeli regime aborted for ideological reasons, as if the IDF could not fight.

You write that the U.S. fought Israel's wars. No U.S. troops were involved. Russians did fly some of the Arabs' planes in earlier wars.

All your statements are false. Don't call us ignorant!

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