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MoroccoKid

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 04:02 PM
Original article: The Israel rules

Intellectual dishonesty

What your wonderfully dishonest comparison fails to note is that the "Indians" (Palestinians) aren't founded on the prinicpal of destroying the US; pushing all of the inhabitants into the sea; killing innocent American citizens (men, women, children- civilians and military); and hiding their missile launchings and bomb stores in their mosques, hospitals, schools, homes of the children that inevitable retaliation will undoubtably put in harm's way.

Untrue, as well, is your contention that Israel usurped these Indians' rights by taking their land and pushing them off of it. The "Palestinians" ran from their land, out of the ignorant belief, fanned by the mullahs and arab leaders, who told them the Jews would slaughter them if they remained.

What you conveniently fail to mention are the actions of the arabs countries, on the other hand, who have a long history of killing and dipossessing the Jews that were in arab countries before, during and after the creation of the Jewish state. In fact, there were approximately the same number of Jews who *were* forced to leave their lands, wealth and possessions in arab countries as there were "Palestinians" who fled what became Israel in 1948.

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