re: #193 marjoriemoon

I’m going to disagree with you - respectfully, but disagree nonetheless - because I have read the history, and I’ve formed different conclusions.

In the very founding document of modern Israel, it clearly states: “that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” Israel has a responsibility to the people who were living on that ground when Israel was founded. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not making excuses for the PLO or canonizing Arafat or anything else; nothing excuses what’s been done there, on either side. All I’m saying is that the Palestinian Arabs are there, they are humans, and they have as much right to freedom and self-determination as the Jews. That’s all I’m saying.