Sheik Ahmed Yassin
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- jame_s0
utah, what a whackhole
101!! woohoo
- Mr_Jump0
And drop some in my garden. I got a funny feeling about my cat. It's taken to wearing a turban and growing beard.
- laurus0
Well,
Yes, many Israelis have a problem with it. But many don't.
Israel is the only country in the middle east (including Muslim countries) that muslims have the right to vote in.
And if you are talking about respecting other religions and ethnic groups—what about the other countries in the region? much less tolerance there. Let's not forget that half the Jewish population in Israel (the half that is not of European origin) were forced to leave muslim countries in which they have been living for hundreds of years—being persecuted by Muslims.
The fact that Jews and Palestinians are living siide-by-side is not going to change. The historical wrong-doings don't really matter. On both sides. The only way to solve it is to look at the future.
Israel is not going to become an homogenical part of the middle east and the Palestinians are not going to become westernised. Doesn't mean they cannot live in peace. My best friend's gradfather was a Nazi and my grandparents died in the holocaust. We are very different—but we can accept it. We even joke about it. It wasn't that long ago, there are still people with numbers tatooed on their hands living in my neighborhood—yet the relations between Germany and Israel are OK. Just 50 years ago European were slaughtering each other—and look at Europe now.
- Mimio0
If you look at Europe now you won't find any significant population of Jews living there.
- 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.
- jevad0
warning - graphic image:
- christoff0
it's upsetting to imagine that people like sharon and arafat exert so much influence over regions and people directly and indirectly....isnt it time for a shift change of the forceable variety? take both of them out, and stop likud from fucking up an already fucked up country. israel has mad such a huge mistake - the implications are so scary, worse still, the generation of children who grow up not knowing what it is like to not be afraid is so fucked up it doesnt bear thinking about. anyone for an earl grey?
- RAFFO0
Didn't the Jews make the same mistake with another guy with a beard about 2000 years ago - boy did THAT come back and bite 'em hard.
- k5m0
You can't live your life in fear for what somebody might do, especially when you are at war. While it may cause a backlash it also cuts off the head of the enemy which is devistating.
- dave_bxcr0
laurus, your url is in hebrewsigns my computer doesnt understand can you post it please
yo.
- laurus0
Actually I have read him, as well as other Iraqi Jewish writers, who definately where zionists and did not define themselves as Arab Jews. I have friends that left Iraq as late as 1974.
The Jewish communists there were a fraction of the Jewish population.
And what you call project Israel is what me, my parents and my son call home.
If you think the fundamentalist Islamic clercks will stop with the elimination of Israel—you are dead (literally) wrong.
Just look at what they do to other Muslims.