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Alits end, the article notes that "If Israel took the trouble to try to understand its Moslem neighbors rather than blindly hate them, it could learn an important lesson." On many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: The Fault Lies Not in Israel | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

Such treatment, unfortunately, was never accorded to Jewish communities living in Arab lands. Mild examples of Moslem discrimination against Jews included legislation forbidding a Jew from riding a horse lest he appear higher than a Moslem and laws mandating that synagogues not be visible from the street and be built lower than other city buildings. Step into the Intercontinental Hotel outside of Jerusalem and see the bathrooms paved with Jewish tombstones from the days of Jordanian occupation...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: The Fault Lies Not in Israel | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

Maybe the U.S. should punish this "Israeli aggression" by dumping Israel, and instead siding with the Moslem nations (even though we already support and trade with most of them, anyway). So we dump a friendly, allied nation in favor of hostile, unstable countries that revel in anti-American, anti-Western, and even anti-Super Power rhetoric: countries, that the record shows, have a history of sticking up for themselves alone, and a propensity for violating alliances and treaties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Common Sense | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

...condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Common Sense | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

...United States would stop supporting Israeli aggression in the Middle East and stand with the Moslems, the Moslem nations probably would withdraw from their Russian alliances and the likelihood of a Red victory in that area would be ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policy Proposal | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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