Post #153,610
5/4/04 2:49:11 AM
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Many Arabs were not from Palestine
As Mark Twain and every other traveler in the region commented "...[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."
Where were all those millions of Palestinian hiding? The answer is that they weren't there. They only migrated to Palestine after the Jews came and economic growth picked up. The fact is that there was a population transfer, 800,000 Jews fled Arab countries, 800,000 Arabs fled Palestine, end of story.
Even Yasir Arafat the quintessential Palestinian was born in Cairo. Arafat is no more a Palestinian then I am.
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Post #153,646
5/4/04 9:02:16 AM
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And you were born where?
Alex
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Post #153,650
5/4/04 9:40:42 AM
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New York, NY
Like I said neither one of us was born there
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Post #153,718
5/4/04 1:22:06 PM
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Both of Arafat's parents were Palestinian.
But magically you have more rights there.
Alex
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Post #153,737
5/4/04 2:18:42 PM
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If he went to palestine his rights would be snuffed
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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Post #153,727
5/4/04 1:43:13 PM
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Let me introduce you to some Jerusalem rock formations.
[link|http://www.noblesanctuary.com/|Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque]. Built in 685 CE (i.e. AD). Do you just suppose that might say something about who lived here?
Alex
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Post #153,738
5/4/04 2:26:02 PM
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I got yer rock formations right here
[link|http://www.bibleplaces.com/holysepulcher.htm|http://www.bibleplac...holysepulcher.htm]
built in 330 AD, so who lives here again? Dont mix race and religion.
thanx,
bill
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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Post #153,746
5/4/04 2:52:59 PM
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So you agree Jerusalem should be an international city ...
as originally intended by the UN. Works for me.
Alex
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Post #153,748
5/4/04 3:07:21 PM
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always have agreed that it should be international
With it being the capitol of Israel and Palestine run by a religious council of all the faiths and either ghurkas or Sihks providing security much like the swiss provide vatican security.
thanx,
bill
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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Post #153,750
5/4/04 3:17:13 PM
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That's a winner. I'd pick the Ghurkas.
Alex
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Post #153,752
5/4/04 4:10:22 PM
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both are warriors with no dogs in that fight
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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Post #153,766
5/4/04 5:58:53 PM
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Love their pickles....
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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