Reply #53: These are documented historical facts. If you would stop [View All]

[Colorado Blue]

being judgemental, please, and do some reading about this era, you MIGHT get another impression about the matter than you apparently possess. To disrespect a source because it is Jewish or Israeli is simply bigoted. Moreover it marks one as unable, intellectually, to LEARN.

MOREOVER, the other sources are from universities and the UNITED NATIONS.

The exodus of the Jewish people from Middle Eastern lands, forced and proceeded by discrimination and violence, is no myth. And for all of those who wound up in Israel, hundreds of thousands more fled with practically nothing, to the New World. There, they were on their own, having lost homes, property, and an age-old heritage.

And yes - I am a patriotic AMERICAN. I was brought up to some degree free of the age-old bigotry of Europe, although not entirely. Unfortunately MANY Americans continue to harbor darkly antisemitic prejudice and it is dangerous and something to be deeply feared.

We also do not, as a nation, truly understand or respect the Arab/Muslim world. But we are learning, even those of us who were brought up in a tradition steeped in fear of Muslims, even in spite of the wars in the Middle East, and 9/11 - we are reaching out and trying to learn.

So I would appreciate it if you would too.

Simply because you do not like history, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

These were real people, influential people of their time. They spoke, and people listened. These were REAL EVENTS.

WWII was a very real phenomenon, my friend, and the efforts of the Nazis to expand their bigotry toward Jews spread throughout the Middle East, where they had influence since the 19th century, and where they and Vichy France had occupational forces.

Take some time and look up some books. This is NOT coming from somebody's mouth who is bent of slandering people or inventing history.

If you are wondering why we are having problems coming together now, you have just illustrated a major point: refusal to LEARN.

And the problems we have TODAY, are rooted in the past.

I am not suggesting that EITHER side in this conflict, is innocent. But you MUST understand the mindset of time, and its origins in antisemitic filth, such as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and in the teachings of antisemites from Europe, and how, in the chaos of occupation and war, evil spread throughout the lands of the East.