Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00110)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Ignoring the fact that a group called "The Palestinians" 
didn't exist
> until the 1970's, it was the Jews to whom the British assured a 
state of
> their own.

You are confused. It was the PLO, and not the Palestinians, which 
came into existence after the 1967 war.

I was listening to Alan Dershowitz a few weeks ago and he pointed out 
that the Palestinians were offered their own state in 1947 and 
several times since then, most recently in 2000. You are thinking of 
the Balfour Declaration, which did suggest that there should be a 
Jewish homeland.

> > And which God is it who orders his people to exterminate all 
foreign 
> > people and rule over the world?
> > Is it the God of the Arabs? Or of the Jews?
> 
> The God of the Arabs and the Christians. The Talmud, which 
only the
> Jews accept, says otherwise.

Untrue. First of all, it is slanderous to accuse a deponent who is 
not present to defend himself of saying anything. Second, the OT 
justifies the slaughter in the land of Canaan by saying it was 
ordered from on high. A similar hustification is giben for the rape 
and pillage in Egypt just prior to the exodus. No such statement 
appears in any of the Christian texts, although Constantine and his 
successors decreed in their capacity as secular rulers of the Roman 
Empire that pagans could worship the cross or hang on it. 
Interestingly, their intent was not so much to promote Christianity 
as to promote their personal theology. They persecuted and wiped out 
Christian sects to which they did not belong along with non Christian 
groups.