"You need to get into the 21st century way of thinking and leave all that disgracefully flawed thousands of years old fundamentalism behind."

So the Arabs have moved "...into the 21st century way of thinking..." and left "all that disgracefully flawed thousands of years old fundamentalism behind."?

The only move they've made is to modernise their weaponry, and push their thousand year old agenda on the rest of the world, not just Israel.

How can you expect one side to do that while the other outright refuses to in everything they do, and you seem to support this behaviour. Does the word hypocrisy mean anything to you?

"East Jerusalem was mandated to the Palestinians by the UN in the 20th century" True, but Israel was mandated to the Jews, and the Palestinians are incapable of leaving Israel alone or respecting those "mandated" borders, which is why the Israelis have created buffer zones around themselves, like any sane person would when surrounded by crazy people. The Arabs want it all for themselves purely out of anti-semitic hatred, similar to your anti-semitic attitude. You would have done well in Nazi Germany. Only difference being my grandfathers would have had the opportunity to bomb the bejesus out of you along with all the other racist ratbags who they nailed. People like you and the Arabs have been blaming the Jews for everything under sun since time imemorial. Thank God there are those of us who won't let you get away with it anymore.

It's a ridiculous statement to make in reference to this issue considering which side is living in the 13th century, and trying to drag the rest of us down to their level.

rache, whomever invented or popularised a weapon is irrelevant. Is every war since the invention of the gun the fault of the inventor, or the first army which 'popularised' it's use? So you'd blame the Chinese for the gun? I mean, they invented gun powder.
Just because the Stern gang used car bombs, doesn't justify their use in Iraq, Bali, Thailand, or the Phillipines now does it?

Dear "Logical" I was not presumptuous enough to leave the ? off my user name. Nevertheless I enjoyed your contribution.

Stormont your ignorant personal attack and slur is an utter disgrace. A retraction and apology is in order.
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Keith, I'm sorry if I offended you, but your comments left me with little doubt of your position.

You are essentially defending the Arabs right to destroy Israel, and for that I'd say you are the one who should be apologising.

Is that not racism to you, or are you too blind to see your comments for what they are?
You clearly have no problem with blaming the Jews for all the problems in the ME, and considering my step-father is a holocaust survivor, and my ancestors died trying to stop said holocaust, I found your comments very offensive, and quite frankly I have no time for people with your attitude.

At least I'll concede both sides are at fault, rather than believing the Arabic 'we never do anything wrong' propaganda, which blind Freddy can see is a lie.

To me, your' outright dismissal of Ted's article as "Israeli propaganda" is exactly what I accused you of, anti-semitic, and there can never be peace in the region if all the blame is put on Israel (or on the Arabs for that matter), which is exactly what you did! It's sad to see this attitude still exists in this country since so many men died (clearly in vain) to end it. Maybe you should have a look in the mirror as you suggest others need do?

So no, I won't cede to your demand for a retraction, nor an apology since you made personal attacks against other posters, or are you the only one allowed to attack others?
Now who does that sound like?

I won't argue with fools stomont.

retract and apologise

Surely the point is that Jews Muslims and Christians have all made their home in Israel. There are people of all faiths who were born there and live there. They get on quite well together in comparison with other countries in the region. In modern terms this should give them all a right to be there.

And I keep repeating, though this is continually ignored or brushed aside, what about the half of the Israeli Jewish population who are descended from ancient middle eastern or North African Jewish communities? What are their rights given their treatment in those countries after the Arabs invaded? They were in the same position as the Palestinians and in similar numbers.

What do Hezbollah and Hamas intend to do if they ever gain control of Israel? Set up a secular state with equal rights for all including women?? Israel has such a tiny land area compared with the rest of the Islamic world and has no natural resources like for example oil and gas. Why are the Muslims so keen to own it?