Invented history!

Submitted by Dean Allan (United States), Dec 15, 2011 at 22:16

My goodness! More invented history! The Balfour Declaration said NOTHING about Israel. Not even the Zionists in those days talked about Israel. Wikipedia is not the greatest source of history for the Arabs, but even there, if you google it, you will find out exactly what Balfour had said to Rothschild. Read the whole article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917 There a copy of the actual letter in there. Don't fool yourself, the Zionists were offered the West Indies, and French Gana for a home for the Jewish people because racism and bigotry against the Jews was very high. The Balfour letter was sent in secret to avoid growing antisemitism by those who wanted to get rid of all the Jews from Europe, and a massive exodus would anger the Arabs.

For you to say the Canaanites were primitive people and not Arabs is crazy talk. Did you just come up with that all by yourself, or did someone whisper it in your ear? First of all, I would not say primitive, not when the Jews got lost in desert for 40 years because they did not know how to follow the rising sun east, Second, do you think the Canaanites just appeared out of thin air and disappeared into thin air, and then the Arabs came out of thin air? All the people through out the history of the Middle East were Arabs. The Jews came with Moses from Egypt in Africa, and the Romans kicked them out. That short period of history where the Jews had defeated the Philistines and their neighbors and created Israel does not give them the right to come back 1800 years later to do the same. And if Israel is not careful, if they don't accept peace NOW, no matter how big they grow, and how long it takes, they will be kicked out again. History repeats itself, as they say.

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