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From: martillo@hector.UUCP (Yakim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 12:39:14 EST
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In article <1653@utcsri.UUCP> vassos@utcsri.UUCP (Vassos Hadzilacos) writes:
>>>> The fact that you ignore is that the Arabs were not kicked out of their
>>>> homes. Middle and upper class left because they could afford to.  
>>> 
>>>  Why would anyone leave his HOME, just because he can afford it?
>> 
>> That is an EXCELLENT question for PSYCHIATRISTS who are trying to
>> understand the fiercely proud behaviour associated with the ARAB MIND.
>
>This is a textbook case of anti-Arab bigotry.
>
>The fact is that Palestinians are resisting today exactly what Jewish
>people have more than once resisted in their history: being uprooted
>from their land.
>
>How can a person at once celebrate the resistance demonstrated by the
>Jews and denounce (indeed hate) the Palestinians for doing the same?
>Simple: abandon reason and resort to racism. Well, such a person says,
>if Palestinians do so, it's because there is something so peculiar and
>devious about the "Arab mind" that it requires a psychiatrist's attention.
>
>Such brazen racism deserves the contempt and condemnation of all
>decent people.
>
>--Vassos Hadzilacos.

No, Muslims forfeited all right to this territory because of mistreatment
of non-Muslims over the past millenium.  When Muslims show even the
slightest ability to treat non-Muslims who live among them on terms of
mutual equality and respect then there might be some grounds to talk about
rights to territory.

As it is now, there is no reason to distinguish between the Palestinian
terrorists who now randomly kill non-Muslims and the Muslim fanatics who
rampaged through the Jewish ghettos for example in Libya in the 1790's
1830's, 1860's, 1880's, 1910's, 1940's, 1950's and 1960's at which
point the Jewish community of Libya was wiped out.  There were many
places in the Muslim world which made Libya look good by comparison.

Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami