[pnews-news] A Half Truth is a Whole Lie (Arabs and Israelis)

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(Forwarded from FIGHTBACK - http://pnews.org/dada/)

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The Lesson
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This sympathy for Palestinians and criticism of Israel resonates on both 
the left and right. AntiSemitism is especially widespread once again in 
Europe. The Holocaust has for many there become a distant memory and what 
we are seeing today is a violent resurgence of post-Holocaust 
AntiSemitism*Another big lie is how well the Arabs and Jews got along 
until the Jewish state was declared. This story is utterly false but it 
keeps on being told and I think there are Arabs who believe it - and many 
on the Left will believe it. It is a half truth. There were times when the 
Jews lived with Arabs better than they did in Christian countries but they 
were alway second class citizens and at times they were severely 
oppressed. Arabs learned about nationalism late - long after they already 
got their Palestinian state in Jordan. And then there is the claim that 
they were there first. The Arabs in the region that was set aside for the 
Mandate by the League of Nations was always Jewish and Arabs came and went 
in nomadic waves just as they did all over the region. When you have so 
many deserts and so much of it is barren, it becomes necessary to keep on 
moving in order to survive. When Jews started to redevelop in Palestine as 
farmers and industrialization came to the area it also attracted 
in-migration of Arabs from other Arab territory. But not because the area 
was Palestine nor because of any sense of nationalism.

The entire article 
is located at: http://pnews.org/news/index.php/HalfTruth


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