I have always said that Israel lacked the fire to conduct true killing. This is true of most Western civilizations most of the time, though Israel is a special case in that they can see the torn bodies of their children and still act with compassion towards enemies. That ability is nice… in a peaceful world, but we don’t live in a peaceful world, at all. Jews don’t have the luxury of the Amish, living inside well protected nations or communities.

I take it then that you wouldn’t mind me using a 9 inch blade to carve out your eye? If the Palestinian people can react with violence to people that offend their sense of existence and which they don’t like hearing, then why are you exempt from the knife, jerry?

yes it was Palestine

You also know of course that if you find a 500 AD map, that the area in question would be called Judea.

i personally would like to see that position taken with israel, gee i wonder how many jews would be left in israel my guess would be not many, now that would solve most problems in the middle east, and if the amerikan government would stay out of the middle east that would probably solve the rest of the problems

Your problem is that you life on the sufferance of Israeli and American compassion. Had we been in the universe of the Draka, you would have been strung up and vivisected once your use was over. A pity you don’t realize how lucky you are to live in a world where the people with the most power are the most hesistant to use it to crush bugs and other humans.

Moreover Amanpour is wrong on the facts. When a Jewish settler argued that Jews have the right to live in Hebron, Amanpour interjected that the “West Bank was designated by the UN to be the part of an Arab state.” Amanpour incorrectly invoked UN Resolution 181, more commonly known as the Partition Plan, the plan that Palestinian Arabs rejected in 1947 thus invalidating the Arab-Palestinian claim and rendering the resolution null and void. (The Palestinians preferred to destroy the nascent Jewish State rather than exercise their right to self-determination). Conversely, the West Bank was included in the area of Jewish settlement under the Balfour Declaration and by Article 6 of the British Mandate. Hebron, it should be noted, is one of the four Holy cities for Jews. Jews had lived in Hebron continuously until the murderous Arab riot in 1929 that killed 67 Jews and forced surviving native Jews to flee, abandoning their properties in the process. This land was reclaimed after the Six Day War.

Presenting Jerusalem as the bone of contention between Muslims and Jews, Amanpour sought out the Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Husseini (perhaps a relative of Hitler’s ally and friend Haj Amin al-Husseini – the Mufti of Jerusalem who held sway until the end of WWII) for his views. Husseini told Amanpour, “The Jewish Temple did not exist (on the Temple Mount).” Instead of interviewing a counterpart to the Mufti, someone such as Israel’s former Chief Rabbi Israel Lau, she chose instead to question secular Israelis with little attachment to any religious sites.

Continuing on the issue of Jerusalem, Amanpour told the audience, “Israel captured the Arab part of Jerusalem.” Nowhere did she mention the sacredness of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem (which happens to abut Arab sections of Jerusalem) and the fact that the Arab Legion killed or expelled its residents and destroyed much of what was holy to the Jews. And, she neglects to note that Jerusalem has had a Jewish majority since 1840.

This might go some way to answering the questions you had. By the way, I like it that you ask these questions. So many people operate on assumptions, not facts, and your willingness to acknowledge where there are holes in your information is one of the most refreshing things about your writing.

As if you don’t have enough to digest, see also The Huffington Post…