[lit-ideas] Re: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel

Irene -

Your unlimited knowledge of everything -- including the Middle East and Israel 
-- always stuns me. That the Palestinians were thrown out is as questionable as 
your pseudonym. 

Israel was attacked full-bore in 1948 and before and after. You may not realize 
this, but there's not a single Jew in any of those other friendly Arab states 
either. I wonder why. I'd have a problem if I landed as a tourist in Saudi 
Arabia, Jordan or Lebanon while you wouldn't -- except that you're female. This 
is a world that's not very accepting. Israel isn't accepted. Period. 

While Israel is no angel, (they learned from the Holocaust to be more 
aggressive if they want to survive), it takes aggression to survive in that 
neighborhood. Still your portrait of Israel is distorted. It's just too 
monochromatic, too black and white. Israel's the bad guy and the Palestinians 
-- the poor Palestinians -- are the good guys in this melodrama, this soap 
opera of yours. It's not true -- soap operas never are -- and I'm sick and 
tired of hearing this story. 

I can find things to criticize Israel about too, but not the way you do, filled 
with lies and misrepresentations. 

Stan Spiegel
Portland, ME



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andy Amago 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:33 AM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel


  "The best we can hope for is that we agree to live here and they agree to 
live over there." 



  Except that they once lived here until we threw them out and turned them into 
refugees.  



   
    -----Original Message----- 
    From: "JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx Krueger" 
    Sent: Mar 31, 2007 7:06 AM 
    To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Subject: [lit-ideas] Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel 

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6510799.stm

    I fairly illuminating article.

    Julie Krueger

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