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From: amr@cornell.UUCP (Amr El Abbadi )
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
Message-ID: <1154@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 11:31:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 11:31:36 1985
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Reply-To: amr@cornell.UUCP (Amr El Abbadi )
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Summary: 

In article <941@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) writes:
>> 
>> No, Palestinians lived there long before the Arab conquest. Your argument
>> would be similar to saying that Egyptians or Syrians have been living in
>> their respective countries only since the 7th century, since that is when
>> the Arabs came!
>> 		Amr El Abbadi
>> 
>Actually, what difference does it make what year the arabs invaded and
>took over the country. The Jews were there before and for a longer
>time than the arabs. And Moreover if you want to use the argument
>that since the arabs captured the country in the 7th century and
>killed or threw out as many Jews as there were THEN we now can
>use the same argument about the current status of Israel that we
>invaded and captured and should now throw the arabs out.
>
>mark

That was not at all what I was saying. My argument is that the Palestinians
as a people had been living in the land of Palestine long before
the Arab conquest. By Palestinians, I am also including Jewish and
Christian people who have been living there. The Arabs did not throw
the Jews out nor did they throw any other inhabitants  of the land.
		Amr El Abbadi