06-11-2004, 12:57 AM
Salaam Alaikum!
Honestly, one can do no worse than than Hazam's last statement. It’s not about essential hate for "those Jews" or Israel--but what to do with the myriad of Palestinians who reside in refugee camps away from their original homeland. Certainly a Palestinian state can be placed side-by-side with Israel, can't it? So what if the Jew’s have been there for over 50 years—the point is repetitive and paltry to say very least; it’s be stated and employed for about the nth time now. What is of considerable worth is to create a state for the refugee Palestinians and the Jewish settlers.
I am not against Israel, but I am against an exclusive Israel which sees only a Jewish existence in a land that is just as valuable to Arabs as it is to Jews. Belligerence should be expected with an exclusively Jewish state just as much as it would be in the opposite direction.
--Ibn