Re Israel

Submitted by Kepha Hor (United States), Dec 13, 2011 at 20:08

Easy, my neighbor Frederick, we're probably more on the same side than you know. I also believe that God Himself called Abraham out from Ur of the Chaldees, and that Israel was invented at Jabbok when that mysterious person with whom Jacob wrestled renamed him Israel.

And, I was not arguing for Palestinian Arab statehood (unless, of course, some faction among them wins and says loudly and clearly that it's willing to live alongside Israel--and, maybe, in the interests of making use of crowded shared space, allow Jewish right of residence and property holding, plus employment commuting, and says it loudly and clearly in Arabic as well as English or French).

Frankly, I have a lot of sympathy with people who ask why most of the Arab states have kept the offspring of the "Nakhba" stateless down to the fourth, and maybe even fifth by this point, generation.

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