What Does Jesse Jackson Know That We Don't?

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Originally Posted by Antipas

I think you don't know what you're talking about. First, "Palestinians" don't have a "policy". They just want their land back and to raise their children in peace.

They sure have a funny way of showing it. Is teaching your children that murdering Jews is an honorable thing and allowing them to watch children's TV programming that glorifies being a suicide bomber. You are fooled if you think that a majority of Palestinians want to just live in peace with Israel. Why did they elect Hamas, a terrorist organization, to power several years ago?

If you're talking policy the issue is with the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinians are very suspect of them anyway.

They can't even have peace among themselves let alone with Israel! The tribal infighting they have conducted against each other over the past several years has killed many of their own brothers.

Something else you don't know. The average Palestinian is Christian not Muslim. However, since the conflict with Israel more Palestinians have become Muslim seeing that Islam appears to be the only religious body in the region that is willing to hear their voices. The Palestinian friend I have is Baptist and from a deeply religious Catholic family.

Not true. There are SOME Christian Arabs that are Israeli citizens and some that dwell in the West Bank/Gaza Strip, but the vast majority are Muslims and have always been. And you couldn't pay an Arab Christian Israeli citizen to give up their citizenship for anything! They are free, they have voting rights and they have opportunity. More than the Palestinians give their own people.

Interesting note here: when the Arabs controlled East Jerusalem and the holy sites, do you know how many Christians and Jews were allowed to worship there? ZERO! Since 1967 and the reunification of Jerusalem, all three groups have been allowed to worship at their holy sites freely, with the Muslims being allowed to "police" the Temple Mount. In the meantime they have been systematically excavating the Temple Mount to remove any trace of Jewish history there that preceded them by thousands of years. Like the Holocaust they deny, they do also with the historical fact that Israel had a Temple standing on that site.

I understand commpassion for the innocent Palestinians that want peace and harmony, but evidently they either are very few who want what is good and right for all or they are a very silent majority. But to demonize Israel or the U.S. or radical theologies, look at the historical facts: the Arabs are their own worst enemy.