 Barry_1066 says: It continues to be absolutely remarkable how a country built on revolution, using an insurgency to wage warfare against the sovereign legal government, can turn about and start calling the same in modern times, evil and terrorists. One man's terrorist is another man's hero or patriot. One declares war on a nation, not a concept or ideal. Something is gravely wrong with the direction of this United States of America. We are not holding to our constitution, we can just toss it out in the name of national security? Hog Wash! HOG WASH! What have we become? I don't want to look in the national mirror. Same with birth of Israel. Same with birth of Israel.I would not equate the revolutionary American insurrectionists with the pure terrorism employed at the commencement of the birth of Israel. Sure, I can well appreciate the terror suffered by the Jewish people of Europe but why visit all that horror on the peaceful Arabs who had harmed no one. Two wrongs don't make a right. Proof of that is the continuing increasing level of terrorism perpetrated against the Arabs by America's client state, Israel. No, the overthrowing of a despot king by his previous loyal subjects cannot be equated to the invasion of a land last occupied 2,000 years previously and then the employment of total terror tactics inclu... This post was not about Isreal but in defense of that situation, go look at historical records of the tensions in the land before the creation of the Jewish state. Peaceful Arabs is a misrepresentation of the historical facts in the matter. There were constant tensions between Arab and Jew in the land. The constant killings, fights and uprisings were a constant bother to the British who were ruling at that time and a good historical research will show the 1920s and 30s could not paint the Arabs as peaceful in the region. Sykes-Picot Agreement This agreement is seen by many as conflicting with the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence of 1915–1916. The conflicting agreements are the result of changing progress during the war, switching in the earlier correspondence from needing Arab help to subsequently trying to enlist the help of Jews in the United States in getting the US to join the First World War, in conjunction with the Balfour Declaration, 1917. The agreement had been made in secret. Sykes was also not affiliated with the Cairo office that had been corresponding with Sherif Hussein bin Ali, and was not fully aware of what had... Professor Hisham Sharabi of Georgetown University said 'where a British government minister offers a land not his own, to a people who do not possess it, against the will of those who do...My point is that what would seem quite inconceivable in a Western context, say, Mr Balfour giving away a bit of Germany or Belgium to the Zionists, appears normal and perfectly acceptable in an Arab or a non-Western setting' The Arab Image in Western Mass Media (Outline Books,New York 1980 p177) A Rock and a Hard Place: Origins of Arab-Western Conflict in the Middle East by Gerald Butt ISBN 000255092X |
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