WTC the financial MECCA of the USA

Here's something that you might like to add that shows the utter contempt that Israel has for the USA! 3 years ago, Samuel Sheinbein, an American jew, beheaded a 19 year old Christian boy in Maryland. He then fled to the waiting arms of Israel. Even though Samuel had never before set foot on Israeli soil, the Israeli supreme court immediately declared him an Israeli citizen and refused America's request to extradite him. There are 2 things wrong here: Firstly is Israel declaring him a citizen, merely because he is jewish. Secondly, so what if he IS an Israeli citizen... He committed murder in the US - he should have to face American justice. Instead of facing the death penalty in Maryland, Samuel is in a minimum security prison in Israel and is up for parole in 6 years.
Some ally Israel is!

You may do a YAHOO or Google search of "Samuel Sheinbein" There are hundreds of links.

Originally posted by Odium
Here's something that you might like to add that shows the utter contempt that Israel has for the USA! 3 years ago, Samuel Sheinbein, an American jew, beheaded a 19 year old Christian boy in Maryland. He then fled to the waiting arms of Israel. Even though Samuel had never before set foot on Israeli soil, the Israeli supreme court immediately declared him an Israeli citizen and refused America's request to extradite him. There are 2 things wrong here: Firstly is Israel declaring him a citizen, merely because he is jewish. Secondly, so what if he IS an Israeli citizen... He committed murder in the US - he should have to face American justice. Instead of facing the death penalty in Maryland, Samuel is in a minimum security prison in Israel and is up for parole in 6 years.
Some ally Israel is!

You may do a YAHOO or Google search of "Samuel Sheinbein" There are hundreds of links.

The story of Samuel Sheinbein who I shall refer to a Little Decrepit Turd or LDT for short.

LDT was granted citizenry since his father was a citizen and NOT on teh frounds that he is Jewish. Many countries give automatic citizenship to children of citizens. This happened before the murder story was discovered. The whole story surrounding LDT angered Israeli just as much as it did the US. This law was legislated in order to avoid extradition in anti-semitic cases and was used in a way that disrespected Israel as much as it did the US. LDT is currently serving a 24 year sentence which is the longest incarceration given to minors. He was in jail since 1997 and I assume he will not be paroled after 14 years.
As a direct result of the DLT incident, Israel has since changed the extradition laws to allow extradition of non-residents. I cannot verify that he is in a maximum of minimum security prison although this is less relevant.

In addition, I would like to add that your statement "shows the utter contempt that Israel has for the USA" is purely slanderous and exposes you bias and bigotry. Israel respect the US wholeheartedly and I know this from friends and relatives. I know that after 9/11 the blood banking facilities in Israel were overridden by people who wanted to donate blood. People waited hours upon hours to donate blood which is the only thing they could do to help.

In contrast - Palestinians were dancing in the streets and Muslims in the US where cheering in Mosques.. This I know from a friend of mine who is a cop and serves in a precinct with a few mosque which give them problems

Don't try to creat an Alice in Wonderland reality to suit your needs and justify your arguements.

Originally posted by Odium
Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed Since September 29, 2000
118 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 678 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (Last Update: March 21, 2005)

Nice statistics:
This includes:
A Palestinian child who died while playing with a hand grenade. No-one knows where the hand grenade came from but why not blame the Jews.

The three weapon smugglers who were crawling in the philadelphi route which is a closed military zone. Of course the Palestinians said they were playing soccer it makes them sound more innocent.

From www.rememberthesechildren.org... (a link to the names of the children killed fom the conflict) provided from the website you linked to claims that on January 20, 2005 4 arab children were killed all called Salah 3 of which were 13. In contrast another Palestinian site www.palestine-pmc.com... claims 2 children were killed on that day. I am not trying to reduce the tragedy of these event but I guess doubling the numbers of those 'killed' suits the Palestinian purpose.

Palestinian combatants such as Ahmad Abu Salima who came to a Jewish settlement with grenades to carry out an attack at the ripe age of 15 were also included in the list as well.

In addition 18 year olders were also added.
I guess then that Israeli 18 year old soldiers which were not included in the statistics should also be added in. This will balance out the equation and probably paint a different picture.

And this is only from a very very initial investigation of the matter.

As you can see the Palestinian figures are totally unreliable.

I will reply about the rest later.

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Originally posted by Odium
Moshe Dayan attacked the village of Khissas first on December the 18th - Civilians.

So, by your own definition these peoples happen to be terrorists.

In a manner of speaking yes, how is that for honesty- can you offer the same?
All of the Israeli and Arab organizations engaged in terrorism at the time which was a TIT-FOR-TAT retaliatory attacks. MANY Jews as Well as Arabs were killed in violent manners and this type of mentality existed on both sides of the conflict. I know from hearing first hand experience of horrid attrocities that Arabs performed and in retaliation Jews responded.
My point is that as time progresses these circular acts of tit for tat violence never proved effective at stopping aggressions but only fueled them. Note that most of the Arabs killed in the current intifadeh were killed during operations performed by Israel after terrorist attacks. Which by the way do occur you seem to miss them for some unknown reason.
Fact is that we already came out of the WWII eras of massacres and targeting civilians as reprisal attacks - Israel has abandoned this long ago as a policy shift. Palestinians did not - They are still engaging in a policy of targeting of civilians. Much like Al-qaida, Hamas, Jihad and Hezbullah engage in religious war reminiscent of the crusades except with bombs, rockets and more advanced weaponry capable of mass killings. THAT IS THE PROBLEM AND THE THREAT AGAINST THE WORLD THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH. Israel is at the forefront of this war and the result of this war will decide the fate of the rest of the world - That is why Israel cannot be allowed to lose.

Now back to modern times.

Kach (Hebrew for "Only Thus") was founded by radical Israeli-American rabbi Meir Kahane. The stated goal of Kach and its offshoot Kahane Chai, which means "Kahane Lives," (founded by Meir Kahane's son Binyamin following his father's assassination in the United States), is to restore the biblical state of Israel. Both organizations were declared terrorist organizations by the Israeli Cabinet in March 1994. This followed the groups' statements in support of Dr. Baruch Goldstein's attack in February 1994 on the al-Ibrahimi Mosqueand their verbal attacks on the Israeli Government. Goldstein was affiliated with Kach.

Kach was made illegal because of a single case of terrorism by a Jew against Palestinians. He killed civilians in a manner that typified Palestinian attacks. As a result Israel declared the KACH as a terrorist organization since KACH only verbally supported the attrocity! Imagine what a great middle-east this would have been if the Palestinians would have done the same.
What you failed to mention is that Meir Kahana was murdered by an Egyptian Muslim.

We condemn "Israel's responsibility for the large-scale massacre in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, which constituted an act of genocide" UN Commission on Human Rights (1985)

The UN condemns Israel for sneezing on a warm day. What is your point - Shabra and Shatila massacres were orchestrated by Arabs NOT Israel.

And as I mentioned earlier, they use Ambulances to move troops around. Breaking more international laws.

As I mentioned before, the only report in Israel that Israel used ambulances were actually not ambulances but helicopters which were used to ferry soldiers on rare occasions when:
A) Other modes of transport were not available.
B) Due to the high shielding these helicopters have they were used to transport soldiers in combat areas.
Again that was the only report issued regarding your previous Al-Jezira link (Al-Jezira? come on - They have to be biased!) - Funny no-one else carried this story I guess it is because the story is FAKE.

(March 7, 2002) IDF blocks UN delivery of urgently needed medicine, food, blankets, and tents to Jenin Camp.

Again teh Jenin 'Massacre' lie?

(March 14,2002) "Physicians for Human Rights demands that Israel and its security forces respect medical neutrality and stop attacks on health personnel and health facilities."

During these incursions into refugee camps IDF forces damaged 22 UN schools, four UN health clinics, two UN ambulances, and four UN camp service centers. 141 refugee homes were destroyed adding to the 5,000 refugees who have had their homes bulldozed by the IDF since September 2000

Maybe because Palestinians were shooting from these building in violation of Geneva accords.
london.mfa.gov.il...

List goes on, the U.N. etc says they are in breech of International Law, they've broken the first and fourth Geneve Convention over and over again - yet nothing is done about this.

The UN has showed a rich history of anti-Israel bashing and even supporting and engaging anti-Israel military actions.
www.palestinefacts.org...

How many UN resolutions were issued against the palestinians? Surely the UN should have condemned the PLO for not acting against terrorists for highjacking planes, cruiseliners, killing athletes in the Munich olympics, using children for war purposes, shooting from schools, hospitals, churches, using ambulances to carry terrorists, weapons, destroying holy places of worship and lynching unarmed soldiers in a Palestinian police station? How about Hezbullah for their blatant violations of international law in the crossborder attacks and terrorist attrocities in Northern Israel since Israel's withdraw from Lebanon.
What does all this tell you. To me it says that the UN is an organization of politically motivated countries who do not make resolutions or offer condemnations based on laws, morals or objectivity but on political interest and hatred.

Let me start of by saying peace upon you all.
I haven't come here to fight a war, I've just come here to have a dialogue.
So far I am happy to say that everything is well and I am thankful.

Assuming that you have replied in full to what I have written (JuddahMaccabi) I will now respond to your claims.
Every human being has good and evil within him, and I believe ignorance is what divides us and is the cause of alot of injustice.
The only way we can move forward is to have dialogues, leave behind our bias, and open our minds.

From what you've written so far I have come to the conclusion that you have been wronged, and you feel a great injustice to what you had to go through.
You have a good understanding about what goes on in the Middle East, but you have observed the information through one perspective.

It is human nature for someone to feel the need to protect and defend his own.
But if we wish to stand up for whats right we need to condemn terrorism whether its an Israeli child, a Arab child, or an American child etc

Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in Feb. 27, 1994:
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail."

Jewish Author Maurice Samuels said in p155 of his book 'You Gentiles':
"We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."

Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate:
"We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

(Chaim Weizmann, Published in "Judische Rundschau," No. 4, 1920)
"We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world."

Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry
"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."

Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of the Israeli Shas party, 10 April 2001
"The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them... It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."

"The Arabs slaughter Jews irrespective of the fight for the land. It’s in their blood. Genetic. I haven’t done a study, but I believe it. You can’t believe an Arab even after they spent 40 years in the grave." - Likud MK Yehiel Hazan in the Knesset, Feb. 24, 2004

"I think these people [Arabs and Muslims] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings." [05/12/03] (Michael Savage on his radio show The Savage Nation

I won't quote everything please follow the links for more.

References:
www.answers.com...
www.whatreallyhappened.com...
100777.com...
www.rense.com...
adlusa.com...

Now I have quoted some Anti-Arab bigotry that is spewed by Jewish extremists, I believe one of them was by a christian extremist.

Arabs and Muslims aren't the only people who can be terrorists or extremists.
Just like a white person isn't the only type of human being that can be racist.

We have to both agree on these rules otherwise we are both wasting our time and there is no point of carrying on with this topic.
We have idiots on both sides who are ruining chances for peace and if you don't believe that then we can't really get anywhere.

Its not just the Palestinians who are ruining the chances of peace, that is also something we have to agree to otherwise like I mentioned before, we can't really carry on this discussion.

As I have the impression that you are a very smart individual I will attempt to clear your misconceptions.
But before I do, I will summarise what I have learnt from you.

1. You are eager to learn more and not just following something blindly
   
2. You're also a very intelligent person and well read
   
3. You can engage in a serious discussion and provide evidence to backup your claims
   
4. You have alot of good in you
   

Although I state your good points, you are looking at the Arab world in great negativety.
Maybe its because of your first hand experience of what happened in Iran, who are Persians, nonetheless muslims.
You claimed your problem was with islamic/arab fundamentalists.

Now what you have to understand is, the same negativety that you have which arised from first hand experience, is the same negativety that lets say a "typical" Arab has against Israeli's.
Because of what happened to your ancestors you still feel some kind of animosity against Arabs/Islam.
Which will make you have a negative opinion of them.

Now whether you agree that Palestinians were forced out of their homes, and are under occapution or not. For arguments sake lets say that's true,
wouldn't you think Arabs are going to have that same negativity against Israeli's/Jews?
How about the 50 year war Arab countries had with Israel?
Isn't that going to create tension between the two?
Isn't that going to shape their ideas of what a typical jew is like?
Isn't that going to give them a good scapegoat to throw all the problems at?

What about if America is giving Israel financial and military aid till this day?
Isn't that going to also put them in the same bag?

Now stating all this, we can clearly see where the negativity has come from, its not something that came from nowhere.
You even said "there's no smoke without fire".
If someone treats you badly or there was some kind of tension between you, you tend to have alot of negativity towards that person.

Thats what war does, creates negativity but this negativity can be overcome.
However the middle east has seen enough wars, we have to start extinguishing the flames.
Start educating and stop violence on both sides to acheive our goal which is "Peace".

The majority of Arab/Islamic countries are run by dictatorships, and I believe that is being used as an example to invade them and control them and their oil.
Note I said control them, ultimately its going to be just like a dictatorship but it will be called a "democracy".
They have fancy names for everything these days.
Killing innocent civilians has been given the euphemistic term "Collateral damage".

You even stated that this war is in American interest:

The US does not want to take over the world but have influence on the most important countries for the US interest (this is true for every country).

But you stated that "this is true for every country". And I agree, the only reason Dictatorship run Arab countries don't abuse people on a wider scale is because they don't have the capability.
They are only good at harming and abusing their own people. They and their supporters are the people of hellfire.
Every human being has a conscience, you can't say I was following orders.

Even in the Nuremburg trials the Nazi's excuse was "we were folllowing orders". NO! You have a conscience!

This is something that we have to realise when we are talking about war, we can't just throw this term around very losely.
You have a conscience, think about the people who will suffer, think about how it feels like to be in those peoples position.

Yes dictators need to be out of power, but we can't put peoples lives at risk. If anything we should be encouraging those people to rise up themselves, this is a problem within their own country, it does not concern us.
Unless if there is something we want like oil but we needed a better excuse.

If you believe that its a good idea to go into every Arab/Islamic country to remove dictatorships.
Then you give suspicion for one to believe that you want America to control these countries and influence them.

There's no such thing as an ideal country, and ideal state, America has its upsides and downdsides like every country.
You are implying that America is perfect and arab/islamic countries are imperfect.
In reality they are both imperfect, America's has its freedom to an extent, now it seems that slowly certain freedoms are being taken away.
The patriot act is a good example.

So who are we to say, we're better than they are lets go bomb them and change their regime.
You have some outright extremist Americans praising the bombing of innocent civilians.
"America kicking some ass" is the term they use, "blow them up to Allah is another".
There are people who use these terms, "Sand 'n-word's", "Hook nose", "Kikes" etc.

I am disgusted when I see this done to jews, and I'm sure you're disgusted when this is done to muslims/arabs.
The majority of the people who support this war are those types of people.
The same ones that play heavy metal music in their tanks as they shoot everything in sight.

Please respond to my previous posts on this since I bring my story and these cases were prior to Zionism. I can bring you more examples as well.

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org...(gen).html

I have looked at this link, and I found it to be very interesting, I got the idea that you kind of wanted me to respond to it.
It also says that the Quran is anti-semitic and that the prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) killed between 600-900 men.

This is as you say prior to Zionism, but even your own sources will back me up on this. "While Jewish communities in Arab and Islamic countries fared better overall than those in Christian lands in Europe"
This is a quote from the very same article. It tells us that overall Muslims treated Jews better than christians did.

Now that article on a whole isn't very balanced, yes it does quote some truths, but it does contain some bias.
Had I shown you an extremist Islamic source bad mouthing jews and spewing anti-jewish bias, you would say that this source is bias because its an islamic extremist source.

I provided a link from this site to back-up what I was saying from your sources, so I don't get accused of bias.

First of all about the Quran being anti-semitic.
If you know anything about the Quran it wasn't revealed at one point, it was revealed throughout the prophets life time.
The time that it was revealed has to be taken in context.
It uses example to teach us how to deal with certain matters.

They quoted from the Quran 2:61, thats not fair they did not quote the whole verse.
Here is the whole verse:

[2:61] Recall that you said, "O Moses, we can no longer tolerate one kind of food. Call upon your Lord to produce for us such earthly crops as beans, cucumbers, garlic, lentils, and onions." He said, "Do you wish to substitute that which is inferior for that which is good? Go down to Egypt, where you can find what you asked for." They have incurred condemnation, humiliation, and disgrace, and brought upon themselves wrath from GOD. This is because they rejected GOD's revelations, and killed the prophets unjustly. This is because they disobeyed and transgressed.

This is infact a dialogue between Moses and the Jews. God is talking about the Jews that rebeled against Moses.

The other surah which they didn't quote is 5:64, which talks about the bad Jews who were blaspheming against God, not the entire Jewish population.

If you read on to 5:65 this is what you will see, that the Quran preaches Salvation for Jews and Christians:

[5:65] If only the people of the scripture believe and lead a righteous life, we will then remit their sins, and admit them into gardens of bliss.

Then they quote this verse (2:97­98), which doesn't even exist in the quran, there are only 286 verses in that surah.

But no one ever talks about how anti-semitic the bible or the torah is.
I will quote some:

"For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, for you will do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands (Deut. 31:29).

"So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. And they shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever (Deut. 28:45-46).

Jeremiah recorded the Lord's warning to Israel: "I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. The lion is come up from his thicket ... he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant" (Jeremiah 4:6, 7).

"Indeed all Israel has transgressed Thy law and turned aside, not obeying Thy voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him (Dan 9:11).

"Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no faithfulness or kindness Or knowledge of God in the land. There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed (Hos. 4:1-2).

Isaiah proclaimed: "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger ... I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets" (Isaiah 10:5).

Isaiah 1:4 'Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers'

Ezekiel decries the sin of the people who had brought idols into the Temple area, where they prayed to other gods and even worshiped the sun. "Hast thou seen this...? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence" (Ezekiel 8:17)

Jeremiah (3: 8 – 10):
“And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.”

Jeremiah (5: 7 - 8):
“How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife”

Matthew (23: 25-- 33):
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous and say: “If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.”
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”

About the prophet killing 600-900 men, this story is repeated both amongst some muslims and jews.
Some jews say it clearly proves that islam is anti-semitic.
Some muslims say that this clearly proves that jews cannot be trusted.
These are misconceptions, so let us clear them up.

This is a very complicated story here is a good source:
www.jews-for-allah.org...

To try and simplify the story, what happened basically is a certain tribe of Jews made a pact with the prophet (PBUH).
They would help each other in the time of warfare.
However these group of people were treacherous they disobeyed the pact and joined with apposing forces to wipe out the muslims.

When they were finally besieged they were to be trialed for treason.
A mortally wounded Sa'd b. Mu'adh gave the arbitration that the men should be should be executed, and women and children turned into slaves.

This was seen as something very treacherous, this certain Jewish tribe rebeled against the prophet, and against the Medina agreement.
They sided with the pagans to wipe out the muslims once and for all.
If this was an attack on Jews Per se, then many of the other Jewish tribes would have been wiped out too.

Now what happened when the Japanese attacked pearl harbour? Which was also seen as something very treacherous.
Well two Atomic bombs were dropped on two different Japanese cities.

Killing of Jews, read up on these verses:

250 Levite princesses; of the Jews who challenged the leadership of Moses. "their wives, sons and little children were swallowed up by the ground", then sent a fire to consume the remaining princes. Num. 16:1-40

24,000; Israelites who cohabitated with Moabite women and worshiped Baal. "And the Lord said to Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun..." Num 25:4,9

70,000; Israelis for sinning "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men." (2 Samuel 24:10-17)

then another 14,700; Israeli protesters killed by plague who object to Moses about the prior killing of the 250 Jewish princesses. Num 16:41-49


References:
www.jews-for-allah.org...
www.jews-for-allah.org...

About Muslims supporting Nazi's, lets ask the question "Did hitler have jewish soldiers?"
www.stengerhistorica.com...
www.holocaust-trc.org...

Why do you mention nothing about the "Palestinian regiment"?
When Jews and Palestinians fought alongside against the Nazi's.
www.zmag.org...

How long did the jews live in peace in Morroco? 2,800 years!
Why is this not mentioned?
When the nazi's asked for a list of all the jews in morroco, King Mohammed V, grandfather of the current king, responded: "We have no Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan citizens."

Reference:
www.islamfortoday.com...
www.jews-for-allah.org...

How many Jews did Turkey rescue in the time of the Holocaust? 100,000!
France rescued 15,000.

Reference:
www.israelforum.com...
www.jews-for-allah.org...

Here is a letter by Dr. Anna Kohen praising the Albanians for their protection of jews:
www.frosina.org...

So if we want to look for negative material about Jews, Muslims, and Christians we can find it.
Because criticising is easy.
Anyone with a hammer can go around smashing things, but to build something you need architects, you need smart skilled people.

What I have learned from all of this, that yes the Jews were treated harshly on all sides.
Nevertheless Muslims have treated Jews the best and your own sources will support this.

I have alot of respect to Jews, and understand their suffering.
What happens in So-called "Muslim" countries I can't defend.
Iran is a good example of a badly run country. It is an extremely corrupt country as are a lot of the "muslim" countries.

And about Jizyah, (tax on non-muslims). Well we as muslims pay Zakah which is money that is used for charity, which is part of our faith.
Non-muslims pay Jizyah. Women and children are exempt, as are religious scholars.
Jizyah was part of money paid for protection, as part of compensation for not joining the army.

If you couldn't pay the Jizya you were also exempt.
Tax was 10% of their earning only.
Both muslims and jews required to pay this amount in tax and were both met by force if they did not pay up.

Collecting Zakat (Muslim tax) Book 17, Number 17.18.31: "Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq said, "If they withhold even a hobbling cord I will fight them over it."

Also muslims had to enlist in the army, non-muslims did not have to enlist.
So they were also paying with their lives.

Please read this article which is very interesting:
www.jews-for-allah.org...

is common knowledge. Islam was a beacon of light at the time that Europe was in in its 'Dark-Ages'.

I agree.

That is why Israel must continue to exist. Jews can never rely on other countries or religions for their well-being. Israel must be strong and viable in order to make sure that no such persecution take place again against the Jews. If tomorrow France will decide to persecute Jews there will be a country to escape to - Israel. Jews did not have this luxury previously.

I also agree. Jews do need a country. But do you believe that the Palestinians have a right to stay where they are or should they leave?

The truth is that when Jews refer to Arabs in Israel they call them 'our cousins'. We are both Semites and have similar languages. This is common knowledge.

Thats very good to hear.
What I would like to say to you is that, we really don't have anything against jews.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sparked alot of hatred on both sides.
I do not believe in the killing of innocent civilians and it is clearly prohibited in our religion, but then again when do you see muslims implementing their religion?

We are not suppose to hold people to account for sins they haven't done.
Suicide is prohibited, mutilation is wrong, hitting someone in the face is wrong, because its a creation of God.
So how about blowing someone up?
The Quran calls to patients.

We can't go around killing non-combatants, and say well they do that to us.
Well those people aren't our teachers, this is not Islam.
If you go to any Arab country you will see the amount of corruption and they don't shy away from calling themselves "Islamic".
Ask any Iranian about bribery in his country, which is un-islamic but it still happens.

Yes Jews are being used as a scapegoat.
However after september 11th, muslims have started to wake up, slowly the true muslims will take over once again Inshallah (God willing).

After saying all of this, I hope we both agree that no country should have or use nukes.
Every country should be disarmed, if we wish there to be no more hostility.
And we should have a conscience before we instigate wars or call others onto war.

I will reply to the rest of your thread very soon.
Peace be upon you.

[edit on 22-4-2005 by colin_hal]

First I would like to express my respect for you for having the courage to speak against those corrupt regimes and seeing the evil within your midst. This is very important to the future of your religion and for the world. If more people were like you (from all religions and nations) this would have been a great world. I understand Islam is very dear to you and I am truely sorry if my suggestion of bombing a muslim shrine offended you. This is not my ambition.
You said I feel wronged. I don't, this is life it happened in the 1830s.
What is more substantial was the Bolshevic revolution that stole the riches of my grandparent (early 1900s), the 1973 war caused my parents to leave Israel to the US when my father suffered shell shock and was disgusted by the Israeli internal politics. what bothers me is not that I was wronged but the culture shock that deals with the east (Arab/Muslim culture ) and west ('Democracy' and progression). Which I perceive as total opposites. Israel and the Palestinians are smack in the middle of this and is experiencing the 'worst' of it.

Originally posted by colin_hal
Then they quote this verse (2:97­98), which doesn't even exist in the quran, there are only 286 verses in that surah.

actually the quote is 2:97-98, but theological debate is not the issue.

I am not religious although I learned in a Jewish school and lead a relatively traditional life. What the Bible, Quran or Torah said is irrelevent in my view.
What is important is how can we as people, humans, live together in peace. We have one earth and yet we are raping and polluting the world and waging wars over the right to do this. I am not only talking about oil but other things as well which in my view are more important (deforestation, pollution of the sea and water supplies, senseless killing of endangered species etc).
Oil is necessary for maintaining modern society, the economy and peacefully that is why this is such a sensitive issue. When the oil is in the hands of corrupt, warmongering psychopaths this becomes a problem.

My problem is not with you but with the extremists you are moderate, sesnsible, sane and intelligent . Others who post on this forum try to defend the indefendible by justifying terrorism and demonizing the US and Israel by a plethora of lies. My fear is that that your opinion is a minority within the Mulim world. Another problem is that the Arabs are those that control the Oil resource and use this for their political gain. Since these countries want the destruction of Israel and the US this becomes my problem, the USs problem, Israel's problem and the rest of the Western world who are not burying their heads in the sand.

Jews did enjoy relatively good lives in the Muslim world relative to the Christian world but that too is history. I think today Jews enjoy more freedom and respect in the Christian world. Do not misunderstand me I respect Morrocco and Turkey. I heard that that the previous Moroccan king told his son to watch over the Jews and protect them. I also know that Jews during the Sha era enjoyed freedom as well in Iran.

The inadvertant killing of civilians during war is a tragedy that needs to be taken into consideration when going into war. In addition, collateral damage needs to be decreased - Problem here is that insurgents in Iraq do not care about Iraqis. Hamas and Jihad use civilian locations for engaging in aggressions (shooting from or by hospitals, churches, schools UN facilities) which may cause civilian casualities (and in my view this is what these terrorists want).
From the fear of additional collateral damage should the US leave Iraq? Let Jihadists take over?
For the same reason should Israel not engage in anti-terrorist actions? What action should Israel do to defend itself? give Palestinians what they want? will that stop the attacks?
Regarding collateral damage: I know I will be fried for saying this (not necessarily by you) I think Israel has developed a very effective anti-terrorist doctrine that forced the terrorist organizations into a cease-fire. And all this with relatively little collateral damage. Collateral damage is a given when fighting terrorism. The Geneva conventions become outdated against terrorism since terrorists don ot abide by it and use its loopholes to carry out attack.

How do you propose the world should resolve the issue of Iraq? Iran? Syria? The Arab-Israeli conflict?

Hello JudahMaccabi, I also would like to express my respect towards you.
I am glad we were able to have this discussion and I would love to hear from you every now and then.

From first impression I thought you were a very violent person.
Also I got the impression that you wanted to nuke mecca, which would trigger a very horrific war.

I learnt alot from you, and alot of things I did not know about Jews.
As I've been giving lengthy replies, I will reply very shortly with something shorter.
Sorry if I bored you with the detail, I just don't know how to write something short, but I'll give it a shot.

Now that I have realised that our discussion has nothing to do with history or religion, but about whats happening at the moment, I will keep it towards this subject.

You stated that now Jews are being treated much better in Christian countries than they are in Muslim countries.
Which means that the past is the past. What happened in the past we have learnt from, but the future is whats important.

And I am very glad our discussion has taken this change of course.
I've stated however in my previous post giving reasons as to why the muslims would possibly have anything against the jews.
But I will explain it in a better way very soon, and hopefully keep my post to a minimum.

Before I go I want to say that you are very kind, and I hope you always stay this way.
Don't give people a bad impression of you, the way I did, because people judge on what they see on first accounts.

As a muslim, I have nothing against you, or against other jews.
If I do have a problem, is that I don't like to see suffering.
Your people suffered an extreme amount throughout history.
Anti-semitism doesn't only exist in the middle east, it exists everywhere.
If the problems between Palestine and Israel were solved I can guarantee The levels of anti-semitism would fall dramatically in the Arab/Muslim world.

Take care, God bless you.