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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:56 AM

    My dear McFarland,

    you poor ignorant fool, it was called "The Transfer Agreement."

    Following the call of an international boycott of Germany by the Zionists, and the Germans then boycotting Jewish businesses, they decided to stike a deal. So, since Palestine would allow Jews to immigrate, the Nazis decided to take advantage of that to provide the British with a little trouble - poloitics makes strange bedfellows.

    They would land in Haifa and get the money that they had transfered tot eh account in Germany. The Arabs were not happy.

    So, why did those German Jews who entered Palestine between 1933 and 1936 so eagerly wage a terror campaign against the British, the enemy of the Nazis?

    They even declared war on Britain in 1944.

    Sorry McFarland, but your history book publishers don't want you to know that.

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