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Comments on: Belated Thank You Notes https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/21/belated-thank-you-notes/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:46:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/21/belated-thank-you-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-29732 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:46:44 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/21/belated-thank-you-notes/#comment-29732 Let’s add in 1492 when Isabella the Catholic threw all of the Muslims and Jews out of Spain and they were welcomed in North Africa and the Middle East. The Jews of many communities in the Middle East, and especially Turkey, still speak Ladino, a dialect of Spanish.

Jews have lived in Iran/Persia for centuries and still live there. They aren’t persecuted for their religion, although the Bahai are.

I have heard it expressed that many in the Middle East do consider the Holocaust a European hoax to justify stealing more land. They think that Israel should be in Germany as that is where most of those killed were from, and that was the country responsible, therefore the Germans should have been forced to make room for a Jewish state, not the Palestinians.

There are too many lies for too many years for the West to really be trusted by anyone in the Middle East.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/21/belated-thank-you-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-29706 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:29:45 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/21/belated-thank-you-notes/#comment-29706 From their point of view, the European Jews who swept into Palestine in 1948 and conquered the country from the Sephardic Jews and Arabs who lived there are no different from the Crusaders who swept into Palestine in 1099 and conquered the place — just a bunch of barbarian outsiders conquering some place they shouldn’t be. Or as one Arab told me, “we don’t have any problem with the Jews who’ve always lived there, but the outsiders [the European Jews] need to go back home.”

So they’re predisposed to think the worst, and the European Jews who run Israel (non-European Jews or “sephardim” as they are referred to in Israel are looked down upon by the European Jews and not allowed significant political power) haven’t given them any reason to think differently.

Then Dear Leader comes in and uses the “C” word (Crusade) to refer to his Glorious War For Whatever In Iraq, and, uhm, what exactly are the Iranians supposed to think? Hmm…

And yes, everybody in that part of the world knows what happened in 1099. Not *every* nation has a dysfunctional educational system where a host of “The View” doesn’t even know whether the world is flat or not, after all…

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