The real questions

Submitted by PT (Israel), Jan 12, 2012 at 18:03

While its true that Palestinians are culturally Arabs its besides the point for there were Arabs living for generations in Israel before its modern form. Those Arabs had an attachment to that piece of land and rightfully, from their perspective, didn't want it to become predominantly Jewish just as Jews in Israel today don't want Israel to become predominately Muslim (the main reason for opposing 'The Right of Return') This quibbling about semantics is really just a straw man and a destruction. The real questions are:

Are Jews willing to expel most non-Jews from the lands of Israel as G-d commended them to do in the Bible? They have done it before--that's how Israel was created thousands of years ago. Can they do it again?

Can modern Jews follow Judaism when its at odds with Western morality? Will Christians and secular Jews in the West support them?

Is it moral to support the expulsion of one group of people in order to provide a safe house to another group of people that has been historically a target for oppression and extermination?

Is it realistic to expect Arabs with 80 some IQ to achieve equality with 100 plus IQ Jews? Is it possible that two such dissimilar groups have different meanings to complex ideas such as peace and civil rights?

These are the root issue that Newt ... and others need to address. Talking about the origin of "Palestinians" is just pandering.

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