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In article <1992Apr10.082142.7808@muddcs.claremont.edu> gmeltzne@jarthur.claremont.edu (manu) writes:
>   ...
>   Don't go blaming the Jews for American ignorance.

Absolutely.  We have only ourselves to blame.  If we wanted better
newspapers, we would get them.  Even a Jewish-dominated newspaper (if
such a thing exists) would be forced to provide its customers with
what they want.  Well, this is a bit simplistic, for newspaper
competition has really slacked off recently...

>   ...
>	   Yes, why don't they see?  Why don't they see that the Palestinians
>   who they feel sorry for support a terrorist group that has killed Americans
>   and taken them hostage?  Why don't they see the Palestinians send out 
>   children to fight the inifada, and that's why they get killed?  Why don't
>   they see that Israel acquired her land from the Arabs the same why America
>   acquired land from the Indians?  Why don't they see that Jerusalem has only
>   been free to people of all religions  under Israeli rule?  
>	   Let me guess...it's the Jewish owned media that is responsible.

I think that most Americans do know that the PLO is a terrorist group
that has killed Americans.  (I haven't seen an opinion poll on the
subject, though.)

As for the Palestinians sending their children out to fight the
intifada, and thus being solely responsible for their deaths, that is
a very one-sided view of the conflict.  You are spouting propaganda
there.

Israel did _not_ acquire its land in the same way that that America
acquired its land.  About 5% of the Israeli partition of the
Palestinian Mandate had been legally bought by Zionists.  The other
95% was ceded to the nascent Israel by the UN and the UK, partly
because it had always been promised to the Zionists, partly because
the UN wanted to find its own solution to the Jewish Question, and
partly because the Zionist terrorists were killing and murdering
Arabs, Brits, and a UN mediator.  The rest of Israel (about half) has
been acquired by conquest (in wars mostly started by the Arabs).  This
is not at all similar to the US, where the initial revolution was
fought as a war, not as a terrorist campaign, and where most of the
land acquired since 1798 was purchased peacefully (Louisiana Purchase,
Alaska, Gadsden Purchase) or joined voluntarily (Texas albeit after a
Texan rebellion against Mexico, Hawaii).

And in my admittedly insufficient reading, Jerusalem was free for
worship to all faiths under British rule.  In fact, one of the early
Arab-Jew riots in the Palestinian Mandate started because the Jews,
who had been allowed to worship at the Wailing Wall (then owned by the
Arabs) wanted to set up a partition there.  The Arabs resisted,
understandably so, as setting up essentially a building on their land
would be a step towards claiming ownership of the property.

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=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)