Where Am I Wrong About Palestine?

Laughing Weasel:

"Speaking as an American of Indian decent I can sympathies with the pals. If they were targeting military police and government employees I would not have a problem with them fighting for their goals. When they deliberately go after the soft targets children and students they are no longer freedom fighters they become criminals of the worse sort. ..."

I wholeheartedly agree that the current tactics - strategy of some of the Palestinians is aimless, crminally cold blooded, infinitely repugnant and self defeating.

Unfortunately, the world histories of national and racial hostilities seems to show that there is apparently no limit to the amount of possible cold blooded types of attacks that may ensue in these confrontations. In fact, the Jewish Old Testament was probably the first to document and glorify that sort of thing, at the hands of the Israelis, the first time they stole Palestine (Canaan) from its native inhabitants after they got kicked out (See link below) of Egypt . Since they didn't succeed in killing all the inhabitants of Canaan at that time, they didn't get control of all of it like their Lord promised them. They did much better in the United Nations with the help of anti Arabic powers.

Here are a couple of passages from a modern English Bible.

Deuteronomy 3

"Next we headed for the land of Bashan, where King Og and his army
attacked us at Edrei. But the Lord told me, ‘Do not be afraid of him,
for I have given you victory over Og and his army, giving you his entire
land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled
in Heshbon.’ So the Lord our God handed King Og and all his people over
to us, and we killed them all. We conquered all sixty of his towns, the
entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. These were all fortified
cities with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled
villages at the same time. We completely destroyed the kingdom of
Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all
the people in every town we conquered—men, women, and children alike.
But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all
the towns.

Samuel 15

One day Samuel said to Saul, "I anointed you king of Israel because the
Lord told me to. Now listen to this message from the Lord! This is what
the Lord Almighty says: ‘I have decided to settle accounts with the
nation of Amalek for opposing Israel when they came from Egypt. Now go
and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children,
babies, cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.’"
So Saul mobilized his army at Telaim. There were 200,000 troops in
addition to 10,000 men from Judah. Then Saul went to the city of Amalek
and lay in wait in the valley.
Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur,
east of Egypt.

This is about half of the slaughter story.

Link to a British museum's version of the Exodus:

http://www.marlowarchaeology.org/reports/19991207_canaanite.htm

Fairfield

 

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Very good and topical, Fairfield- Yep: That's where you're wrong about Palestine. This is not a Biblical conflict.

 

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