From what I've learned, the Palestinians are actually decendants of the Philistines. So it the Jewish people had listened to God and destroyed the Philistines completely when they moved into the promised land, they wouldn't be having the problems that they are having now.
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*they wouldn't want that land back and the Jews wouldn't be hated in the middle east.
Counter-point: Israel has already given the Palestinians several tracts of land as part of a series of attempts at a peace settlement. Each time that happened, Hamas or some other group responded with a terror act.
Face it - Hamas (who is now the ruling body in Palestine) isn't going to be happy until the Jews in Israel are as dead as the fundie who made that post wands the Palestinians to be.
That might be true, Israel has given some land back. But the Israelies are assholes in their own right. They are doing and have done worse than the Palestinian "terrorists" have ever done.
Even nowwith the invasion of the Gaza strip. They bombed a school because one soldier was kidnapped. Why was the soldier kidnapped? Because they wanted women and children to be released from Israel's prisons.
So, the troubles in the Middle East would have been averted if the Jews had followed the directions of your blood-thirsty, asshole of a God and committed complete genocide rather than just some sloppy atempt at genocide?
It could be equally contended that there would be peace in the Middle East if the Philistines had slaughtered all the Jews.
I don't have sympathy for either side. Both are rooting their claims, for what amounts to a miserable heap of sand and dirt, in some ancient scrolls that claim God is on their side and gave them that miserable scrap of land.
Admittedly, the whole reason that Israel even exists right now is because the UK wanted a nice foothold on the shores of the Arab Middle East. So to that extent, the Palestinians have a legitimate greivance in that a bunch of European Jews suddenly showed up and gave them the boot.
However, the fact that the Palestinians make the dispute into a religious cause drops my sympathy.
Now let that be a lesson to the rest of youse, the next time some voice comes to you in a dream and tells you to wipe out the native peoples so that you can 'claim' their property, then you best don a happy face and slash throats till you cannot hold a blade horizontal anymore! Yea god! Yea genocide! Ye cats.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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