freediver wrote on Jun 30
th, 2013 at 10:29am:
Gandalf, where did you get the 60-600k figures from?
Several places, eg:
http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000636The same figures are verified by several other sources.
freediver wrote on Jun 30
th, 2013 at 10:29am:
Muhammed himself was keen on ethnic cleansing, particularly when it came to Jews. The Arabs achieved what centuries of European Jew-haters could not. You can only make them look good by comparing them to Hitler.
No, the muslim treatment of jews looks very good compared to christians throughout history. When the muslim armies conquered Jerusalem in the 7th century, jews were allowed back to their holy place for the first time in centuries. Religious freedom was restored. When the christians conquered it back in 1096, jews were slaughtered and expelled. When Saladin retook the city in 1187, he entered the temple mount and found it covered in a pile of horse manure. Apparently, for the christian rulers it wasn't merely enough to expel the jews, they had to continue to defile their most holy place. Saladin ordered it cleaned up and yet again invited the jews back to worship freely there.
During the golden age jewish scholars flourished under islamic rule, and made huge contributions to the flourishing of science and philosophy. Yes, there was the occasional pogrom and massacre, but these seem to be the exception not the rule - and it was almost certainly on a much lesser scale to the constant persecution and slaughter of jews in the christian world during the same time. In the 15th century when the catholics retook Spain, the jews were once again targeted and expelled. Where did the muslims flee to? Many went to the muslim world of course.
freediver wrote on Jun 30
th, 2013 at 10:29am:
The Arabs turned the whole area from a Jewish "majority of the population in certain key centres" into a Jewish ghetto, the sqealed like pigs when instead of letting the Palestinians wipe them out, the Jews turned it into one of the strongest, wealthiest and most socially progressive nations in the area.. blah blah blah....
Wow FD, that would have to be the most racist, ignorant and baseless rant from you yet.
I suggest you look at some objective history, rather than be a mindless drone of Israeli propaganda. As early as 1920 the British foreign office observed that the zionists were creating serious political tensions between the jews and the arabs, by openly boasting that they would overrun the entire area of Palestine - with no consideration to the native arabs living there. Zionist leaders such as Ben-Gurion (as quoted previously) were making it clear that any partition plan to grant both the jews and arabs their own state, was merely a stepping stone towards gaining control of the entire area - and once again to hell with the arab natives. From around 1946-47, the jewish terrorist groups Irgun and the Stern Gang were conducting a systematic terror campaign in key arab urban centres to clear the way for zionist expansion. This was well before the arab nations intervened. When the British rulers attempted to clamp down on this terror campaign, the terrorism was redirected to the British - most famously with the King David Hotel bombing - killing 91 civilians - to date the largest single terrorist attack in the entire history of the conflict. When war broke out in 1948, there is little historical doubt that the Israelis used it as an opportunity to systematically drive out (ethnically cleanse) hundreds of thousands of arab civilians.
Yes, there has been extremism and atrocities by both sides, but once again, as you *ALWAYS* do - you paint this sort of conflict involving muslims as a simple case of muslims only behaving badly. This misses the entire context of zionist provocation, and atrocities meted out against arab civilians in the name of an imperialist agenda.
But lets not forget the premise of this thread: the quote you posted in the OP stems from a bogus claim of yours that the creation of Israel was, more than anything else, the result of the expelling of jews from the arab world. Whats really funny about this claim is that this expulsion didn't even start until Israel had already been created

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Its simply absurd to think that the massive transformation in demographics between the world wars wasn't the main facilitator for the creation of the jewish state - created entirely by jewish migration from Europe. Its just yet another pathetic and desperate attempt to pin what is unquestionably a European issue on to the muslims.