Active Users:760 Time:14/01/2026 11:41:33 PM
What the Hell are you going on about? Tom Send a noteboard - 07/06/2010 04:08:19 AM
What a way to conflate history into a mess that means absolutely nothing. Essentially, what you just said was that every fictitious tribe in the Bible is an Arab to the Jews. That is patently absurd. You then said that this "historical" record of conflict is the reason for the Arab-Israeli conflict. It isn't. It's because of the other things written in the Bible, the "I give this land to you" language. The land was supposedly in the hands of several fictitious groups and some that were probably historic, but none of them were Arabs, and none were people we would recognize as "Palestinian".

Jews lived in Egypt calmly, peacefully and happily for millennia and recited every Passover "remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt" without hating their neighbors.

The Jews lay claim to the land of Canaan and have continuously for thousands of years. THAT is part of their religious understanding of who they are as a nation, something that is burned into their consciousness. HOWEVER, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN FIGHTING THE ARABS FOR MILLENNIA. This conflict is purely recent. How many ways do I need to say this for you to get it? Maybe I should get out sock puppets?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

*MySmiley*
Reply to message
Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair and related problems, in the LRB - 06/06/2010 11:28:14 AM 1280 Views
What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:48:16 PM 1067 Views
Re: What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:56:32 PM 1002 Views
*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events* - 06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM 993 Views
I agree in part and (strongly) disagree in part. - 06/06/2010 05:40:26 PM 965 Views
"If it's an eternal struggle, how could there ever be a solution or a peace?" - 06/06/2010 06:20:39 PM 1030 Views
Purim may or may not refer to a historic event. Even if it does, Haman was not likely an Arab. - 07/06/2010 12:00:05 AM 886 Views
I second your main point. - 07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM 942 Views
I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs". - 07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM 870 Views
Okay, fair enough then. *NM* - 07/06/2010 08:45:19 AM 408 Views
The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless. - 07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM 979 Views
You're still missing the major point here. - 07/06/2010 12:44:08 AM 862 Views
That seems a rather limited view of history. - 07/06/2010 01:10:11 AM 968 Views
What the Hell are you going on about? - 07/06/2010 04:08:19 AM 946 Views
Oooh - 07/06/2010 11:07:43 AM 779 Views
Yeah, to whom was the claim on that land given? - 07/06/2010 10:35:42 PM 913 Views
jeez Joel... - 07/06/2010 04:24:47 AM 906 Views
No, the Persians are not Arabs. - 07/06/2010 10:09:47 PM 1098 Views
I (coincidentally) stumbled across those infamous hadith passages about Jews the other day. - 07/06/2010 09:41:39 AM 1005 Views
So? - 07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM 960 Views
So the relevance of apocalyptic passages is close to zero. - 07/06/2010 11:55:05 PM 901 Views
Not to mention - 08/06/2010 09:09:27 AM 805 Views
Then why are they canon? - 08/06/2010 06:25:09 PM 1106 Views
are you claiming that people would pull some things out of holy text and ignore the rest? - 08/06/2010 12:16:41 PM 958 Views
*NM* - 08/06/2010 01:16:13 PM 375 Views
well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews - 06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM 1069 Views
how so? - 06/06/2010 11:41:18 PM 824 Views
It reminds me of what I kept thinking as I read it. - 07/06/2010 12:51:36 AM 866 Views
couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM* - 08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM 568 Views
You hallucinated? *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM 446 Views
No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM 385 Views
No - 08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM 840 Views
I think he's not talking about that bit, but about the very first paragraph. - 08/06/2010 09:30:21 AM 969 Views
If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it - 08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM 835 Views
That's the problem with the speech - the large majority of what she had to say was worthwhile. - 08/06/2010 01:15:39 PM 887 Views
The problem is blatant bias - 08/06/2010 02:24:57 PM 891 Views

Reply to Message