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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE] The Israelis were at war with the Syrians, Jordanians and Egyptians. They weren't at war with the Palestineans because the Palestineans didn't have a state of their own [/QUOTE] Quibble #1: You forgot to include the Iraqis and the Lebanese in the first war, they attacked, too. Quibble #2: By that time, you mean. They HAD had a state before the first attack. The fact that the U.N. didn't give them ALL of the area was their beef (and where are the UN-supporters here?) Which begs the question of whether Palestine was any more a state than an idea. It's a name of a region, but not a nation any more than the U.S.'s Appalachia. It didn't exist before the UN partitioning, it ceased to exist one day later in the war, so was it ever 'really' there? And let me say that the guy who stands by and cheers on the lynch mob is just as much the enemy as the guy who holds the rope. (And if you don't think the Palestinians helped the invaders... naive. In fact, the encyclopedias say that the invaders were there "to help the native Arabs destroy Israel.") Wasn't the rhetoric of the time about 'pushing the Jews into the sea?' I'd think that meant they intended genocide... pretty much ANY action is justifiable when you're trying to avoid that, including seizing the territory of the guys cheering on the lynch mob. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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