Whether is is monolithic or monotheistic, the message is the same (damn word suggester and damn those who will excuse evil.)
Helena Coban conveniently forgets to tell us that at Camp David II talks between Yasar Arafat, Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak offered Arafat sovereignty over everything above ground on the Temple Mount with Jews retaining sovereignty with everything below ground. Now who would not take an offer like that. I can tell you for one, Jews with any pride would not. But as history went, it was Arafat who rejected the offer. So don’t come with your crocodile tears Ms. Coban. The Palestinians apparently do not want the responsibility of running a country and to be in a position where they are prepared to share with Jews. For them its everything or nothing. Now if you have failed to understand this, then look into a mirror to see where the problem lies.
Never, in all of history, has the holy city of Jerusalem been as accessible to all three monolithic religions, as it is now. Let Islamic characters take control and you know exactly where it will go. The Muslim world has provided enough evidence to back this up.
Far too many stories and evidence of peaceful situations ….., until the cameras and TV crews arrive on scene. It’s called fabricated violence and tension, and all for a bad cause.
Read Rubio’s op-ed in the NY Times today.
What this article is suggesting is that if the IDF would shot to kill, instead of shooting at the legs, that the net result would be better for the Gazan economy and health system.
Zaid, maybe you can explain why Arabs have a word for Black slaves and another word for “other” slaves?
Marnie, did you just happen to “forget” about how Jews suffered during WWII? When Jews marched with Martin Luther King in 1963, do you know how many years this occurred after the suffering that Jews went through, suffering that Blacks in the US knew nothing of. Or are you still comparing the two? You probably are and you are most likely one of those who doubts how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. So I’ll do the math for you Marnie. Jews marched with MLK just 18 years after the Holocaust. You should be ashamed of what you have just written.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/05/apalershadeofblack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti-African_and_anti-black_slurs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
The fact is that in recent times Arabs are trying to “smooth” over their historic and long use and abuse of Black slaves. And the the real tragedy of Marc Lamont Hill’s firing is that Marc does not realize that he, as a Black man, has more in common with the Jewish struggle in “Palestine” than the Arab one.
For the life of me I do not understand why Blacks support Arab aspirations. It boggles the mind. This is partially explained by the percentage of Blacks with negative feelings towards Jews, which is higher than in any other group in the US. Sad, but true, especially after how much Jews have assisted Black causes over many years. And some Jews will never learn. The same animosity Blacks have towards Jews, so Arabs have, or will have, toward other types of Jews currently supporting Palestinian Arabs.
Back to the Arab/Black web, the way that Arabs have treated Blacks has been abominable, from rounding up slaves and shipping them of by the boatload, to local slave trading. The word in Arabic for slave is “black man” (Abed).