uchristen:for us troops. I would like to see some balance in the...

uchristen:for us troops. I would like to see some balance in the debate you put forward.

On the one hand you posted a quote by Ben Franklin which I found a hateful piece but in it he makes a statement about the Jews and Palestine - see the bolded bit.

Then you post an article about the Zionists occupying land for 50 years allegedly stolen from the Palestinians.

Remember, this was said by Franklin hundreds of years ago - in the 1700's from memory. Predates 1948 by a bit.

They both cant be right can they?

"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine.

Gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race."