Au contraire, Mr. Pipes

Submitted by Joe kaffir (United States), Sep 26, 2006 at 06:19

Dear Mr. Pipes,

Regarding the basis for moslem motivations to attack Israel. The moslems have been successfully attacking Jews going back to the first battles of mohamed in the koran ...They are simply following in his footsteps believing in their age old "religious" nonsense.

The moslem attacks on Israel today are merely a continuation in this long, sordid and religiously motivated history of aggresion. I must respectfully disagree with you on that point. The so called "arab nations" of Egypt, Syria,Lebannon etc. have at best tenuous land claims on Israel. Only "Trans-Jordan" had some tiny basis for claiming Israel but no longer does. Therefore one must conclude that attacks based on islam are the driving force ( martyrdom, gratuitous murder, rape,plunder and high unemployment come with the territory).

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