From: nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss)
Subject: Re: What price for peace?
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:30:05 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.001424.25704@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
>In article <1992Jul15.140145.7095@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul13.181203.22672@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul13.150134.1254@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Jul9.002121.16998@wpi.WPI.EDU> nyh@pitt.WPI.EDU (Nevo Y Hed) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Jul08.161142.10287@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I agree with you here, but you have to keep in mind that the occupier
>>>>>>does not have the right to occupy in the first place.
>>>>>
>>>>>In your last paragraph you did recognize the actions that lead to the
>>>>>occupation/annexation.  Israel had the right to annex Jerusalem under
>>>>>the said conditions [regardless of the 67 war].  Now add to that the
>>>>>67 war that was clearly and intentionally provoked by Egypt and
>>>>>followed by the joining of Syria and Jordan[?] that had no deal in
>>>>>that war.  It was a Israeli Egyptian story and I could care less about
>>>>>agreements between them.  Why didn't we have the right to annex?  We
>>>>>had every right to annex Jerusalem.  We also had the right to annex
>>>>>todays OTs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>	-Nevo
>>>>>-- 
>>>>>Nevo Y.	 Hed              nyh@wpi.wpi.edu
>>>>>++1-508-754-2491          CS student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
>>>>>did you know that not all you know is true?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>OK Nevo, you want to go back in history? that is fine. The 1967 war was 
>>>>a result of the 1948 war that forced Palestinians to flee their homes.
>>>
>>>Considering that the 1948 war was aggression by the Arab countries
>>>bordering Israel, this clearly puts the fault on them for the 1967 war
>>>as well.  
>>>
>>>-- 
>>
>>I think you know better than saying that. In 1948? 
>
>Yes, in 1948.  The war was in no way aggression by the nascent Jewish
>state.  Consider, for example, who was the prime "resistance" leader of the
>Palestinians - Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a known Nazi collaborator during
>WWII, and one who used similar rhetoric in his speeches often.  His
>cadres moved starting almost the day the partition agreement was
>announced, and months before it took effect, to prevent its taking
>effect.  When neighboring Arab countries entered the war, it was with
>the express purpose of "pushing the Jews into the Sea." 
>
>I don't blame Palestinians at large for al-Husseini - the man was a
>dictator and a tyrant, who by the mid 1930s had eliminated most of his
>opposition, and may not have been too popular.  But in a war, what so
>often matters most is who has the guns.   And he most certainly did
>that.
>

I don't care what Hajj Amin was. All I know is that the Palestinians at
that time were opposed to establishing a Jewish state. I think Jews would
have done the same thing if they were majority at that time.


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