The Daily Campus

Originally posted by

Rick

Why is it that Americans can criticize every other nation in the world, including our own ... but hands off Israel? If society has been misled or the media have been dishonest, then set us straight. But do it with hard facts, not mere pejorative labels and counter-assertions.

It's good that Israeli intelligence stopped a potential terrorist attack in Tel Aviv a week ago. But that sounds like an internal matter. How does that make us allied in the war on terror?

I look at statistics on military deaths in Iraq since the start of the Iraq war. 3,803 Americans so far, 297 from 18 allied countries. Israel is not one of those countries. Personally, I think Israel should be sending US money to fight the war on terror, since Israel is the principal beneficiary of it.

Originally posted by

Saleh

2) It is flat-out dishonest to ignore the very crucial question of why those angry neighbors of Israel are angry in the first place. You attempt to deceive the readers by pairing phrases like "anti-Israel" and "antisemitism" together, and leave the reader to conclude that the Arabs were angry simply because they hated the Jews! You are either ignorant or intentionally ignoring the real reasons why the Arabs had to fight Israel...

It is a fact that there has been no conflicts between the Jews and the Arabs for over 1300 years, and that in most cases Jews were treated very well in Muslim-ruled states, until the conflict over Palestine broke out last century. The conflict was a consequence of the Zionists' plan of a mass Jewish migration from allover the world, especially from Eastern Europe and Russia, to flood the land of Palestine. Jews moved from the situation where they composed no more than 8% of the Palestinian population at the beginning of the 20th century, to over 30% in 1948. Moreover, those Jewish immigrants while under the British occupation of Palestine organized themselves in criminal gangs and exploited the fact that the local population resisted the British occupation and virtually sided with the occupier gaining the political, financial and military support of the British, (by the way, Israel continues to play the exact same role today, but today they are exploiting the United States instead)...Once the British occupation left Palestine in 1948, the Zionists declared the establishment of a "Jewish" state in Palestine. No wonder then why the angry neighbors had to fight against the "Jewish" state... NOT because it is Jewish, but because it was established on someone else's property...