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Reply #39: Wrong. It's about sovereignty. [View All]

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aranthus

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Mon Feb-09-09 02:26 PM
Response to Reply #33

39. Wrong. It's about sovereignty.

First. You're wrong about the Arabs/Muslims not launching pogroms against the Jews. They did, only not as bad as in Europe (if you count Hitler). The peace that Jews enjoyed in the Arab world was bought with second class citizenship and special taxes. The Arabs did not object too much to the Jews as long as they agreed to live as underlings beneath the Arab ruling class (with some few exceptions).

Second, the Arab objection is to Jewish sovereignty, even over land that the Jews owned. The Jews did not take any land from anyone, let alone steal it, until after the Arabs attacked them.

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