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re: mitsoss - about respect -tell me more To Snooker and or Yak:

I dont know if this is correct but if it is, Israelis are plain crazy and Israel may cease to exist in 30 years or so.

Is it true that Israel, out of a population of around 6 million, 1 million and then some, are palestinians???

Approx 20% of Israel’s poulation is made up of Arabs which include Bedouins who are regarded as friendly and serve valiantly in the armed forces. Even though they are Muslims, they have receieved the short end of the stick from fellow Arabs since year dot. In fact they are regarded by fellow Muslims similar to Gypsies.

Again, is it true that many of these palestinian Israeli citizens have been publicly praising palestinian suicide bombers??

Yes, it’s true. Two members of the Israeli parliament have been quite vocal on these issues but as recently as yesterday the Israeli High Court ruled 7:4 that they be allowed to run. There is a move toward parliamentarians swearing an Oath of Allegiance to the state, and if one doesn’t then they should not be allowed to sit

If this is so, you guys are absolutely nuts! Could you imagine what would happen in Australia if after the Bali bombings, muslims were dancing in the streets of Sydney or Melbourne ( or whereever? ). Yet from what I have been told, this is the case in Israel and no one can do anything about it.

You bet we are nuts. Totally nuts. But what’s good in one country does not follow that it must be adopted in Israel. The world has different expectations from Jews. Can’t think of a rational reason why for argument sake, it’s ok for England to fight for the Falklands because it’s good sheep pasture ground, yet historically the Falklands belong to Argentina. They went to war and that/is ok, yet there is a different set of rules for Israel. Why? You tell me! If there was an outrage here and the backers of the outrage danced in the streets, I reckin there would be a sell out of cricket bats and many skulls would have been used for practice.

Can the Israel do something about it? Of course but the world will jump all over her, whereas if a similar thing happened in Australia, the UN and the UN wouldn’t even raise it for discussion.

If this is true ( I am hoping that you guys can confirm or deny this ) then I am thinking that the cancer within has already spread too far and has become inoperable. Muslims breed like rabbits and it will only be a matter of time before there are more of them than there are of you and a vote is taken in the Knesset to return all of "palestine" not just the so called occupied territories, to the "rightful" owners ( Jerusalem, the city of Mustaffah.......has a nice ring to it... )

You guys are gone!

There is a cancer there, no question about it. Don’t have a ready answer for you. One thing is clear, there will not be a Right of Return for Palestinians as that would guarantee the democratic destruction of the state. It won’t happen. Even the loony Leftists would be against that.

If the Likud gets in I don’t believe they will give more than they have to. And even that will be to test the real peace intentions of the Palestinans.

And all this time I praised the Jews for being a smart people. I guess my affection for your nation and its people has clouded my judgement.

Please tell me that I am wrong!

You are not wrong. If Israel had oil, no one would give a rat’s arse, but they don’t. There are many Jews who believe Israel should stand firm, draw a red line somewhere and that is it. You cross that line you will be shot…..dead.

Having said the above and at times feeling very despondent, I know that somehow the Israelis will bounce back. The Arabs will do something stupid. They always do. And that’s where I think god has been kind to us. He gave us the Arabs as adversaries. Anyone else, and the Israelis would have been in really deep shit many years ago.

Somehow, the Jews will get through. Believe in miracles? I do!