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Philip Carl Salzman's avatar

Jordan isn't exactly Palestinian. Much of the government and army is Bedouin. The king's family derives from Arabia, which is largely Bedouin. The Palestinians tried to overthrow the kingdom and take over, but Bedouin population fought back, with a little help from Israel. Many Palestinians were killed, and many left for Lebanon, where they fomented another civil war and destroyed the most cosmopolitan country in the Middle East. Is it any wonder no country wants the Palestinians? I don't want them in Canada, where they already seem to have taken over.

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Nan Ackerman's avatar

Any young man (and most of them were in their 20s!) who can slaughter a family--children in front of parents, parents in front of children--tear an embryo from the sliced-open womb of a woman (leaving her to bleed to death in agony), incinerate a tiny baby in an oven, bludgeon the elderly, and, last but not least, disfigure and rape young girls and then call their families and exclaim their pride in serving God, not only does not deserve the mild epithet "barbarian male supremacists", but has no right to slander God in the process. No God, in any religion, throughout history, has ever countenanced such cruelty. Such acts are a travesty of religion itself, as all have come to educate human beings across the centuries to positive spiritual qualities such as compassion, justice, kindness, trustworthiness--the list is endless.

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