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

Ahh! So it's not true that Palestinians once had homes in Israel. 

Well how about that? Makes you wonder what all the fuss is about doesn't it. 
Should have read a book I suppose...

Simon

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stan Spiegel 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:50 PM
  Subject: [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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