Sheik Ahmed Yassin
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- Mr_Jump0
Anyone been to North London? It's all Jewsih - Golders Green and all that area. Anyway laurus. Isreal is the only democracy in the middle east, thats why it has voting muslims. Let's not act like Israel is some magnanimous country that makes sure there's equality between Jews and non-jews (especially muslims). And yes, there are many countries across the world that have an extremely intolerant majority. That's no excuse for Israel to behave the same way.
Have you read any books by Samir Naqqash? Probably not, cos he writes solely in Arabic. Even tho he's a Jew - an Arab Jew whose family is from Baghdad. Iraqi Jews were by far the largest and most prosperous indigenous Jewish community in the Middle East and played a significant role in the cultural, social and political life of the region. They were also staunchly anti-Zionist. Despite ongoing agitation for immigration to Mandate Palestine, the Iraqi Communist Party was a much stronger pole of attraction than the underground Zionist Hehalutz. In November 1947 the General Council of the Iraqi Jewish community sent a telegram to the UN General Assembly opposing the partition of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state. On the urging of its own Jewish members, the ICP issued an official protest against the Soviet Union’s vote for the establishment of Israel at the UN Security Council—the only Arab Communist Party to do so.
In the 1950s, after the Arab Israeli wars, Jewish Arabs were persecuted and forced leave their homes and resettle in Israel. It seems to me that the very existance of Israel, and its expansionism, resulted in the polarising of communities of Muslims and Jews. You have to accept that Israel was a cause of much of the sectarian violence in Middle Eastern countries.
Peaceful coexistance is very shortsighted. Project Israel is regressive.