This is documented by various historians (Karsh, Morris, etc.). They 'stole' the land from the Arabs no more than Serbs 'stole' Kosovo from the Albanians.

When the history and law are examined, as usual it is the Jews (Israel) that has had her land stolen and given to genocidal Jewhaters.

Read Christopher Simpson's 'Blowback' to get an idea of just how much the US ruling elites love the Jews. They love the Jews enough to tell MSM lies throughout the NATO empire, to blame US imperialism on 'Jewish' neocons, and to blame 9/11 on the US relationship with Israel.

The reality of course is that the US has supported 'captive nation' nazis, 5th column fascists, and similar axis allied losers for 60 years. The US 'lefties' have no problem with this though, b/c the government corrupted NYT only tells them to hate Israel and that the Joooos have a stranglehold on US policy.

Goebbels' big lies are alive and well in the US.

Even if one were to concede (though I don't) the anti-Israeli propaganda -- "They're European refugees who have no right to be there and stole other people's land!" -- even if that were true, it wouldn't explain why Israel is still under attack when other land grabs (Romania, Poland, Germany, Konigsberg, the Kurils, and other post-WWII border-shifts come to mind) have been accepted as a lesser evil than war is.

Therefore, I would have edited "The suspicion that Arab promises are empty – unenforceable, or insincere, or both" to: "The suspicion that Muslim Arab promises are empty – unenforceable, or insincere, or both..."

E.g. Israel's relations with Christian-run Lebanon were never as bad as they have been since Muslims took over almost entirely. [Yes, I'm aware that Lebanon took part in the 48 invasion, but it was only a token force of 1000, who fought only half-heartedly, and were quickly routed. Lebanon feared that Iraq and Transjordan would annex all of "Palestine" and then threaten Lebanon, Syria and Egypt.]

I find it sadly amusing that there seem to be numerically equivalent contingents of people who accuse the US of having a policy of appeasing Arabs by stabbing Jews in the back, and people who claim that Washington is "in the pocket of the Jews."

Since Olmert makes lame ducks look like Olympians; since his opinions are fatuous; since he's an utter failure as both a civil and a military leader; and since even those who agree with him would be ashamed to be seen in public with him; the main lesson of this article seems to be just that Israel is seriously, seriously screwed up.

http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000609.htm

Considering that some of the Bosnian handzar migrated to 'palestine' and became a part of the 'palestinian' movement, it's bizarre that any Serb supporters would support or believe any of the palestinian 'liberation' fiction.

The saga continues as what started as 3 intelligible pages was boosted to 105 only to fail, the elites decided that ramming through 300 more pages of mischievous legisltion is the only way to get this bipartisan (read both stupid and evil) stinkeroo passed. After all what elected official wants to look as though he's too dim to read that much, just vote yea and get it over with. Hell, the elections are in 5 weeks and we need to get back into flyover country to keep our jobs safe.

Now more than ever is the time to call your senators and convince them that bailing out the sharks who fund their campaigns is not necessarily the best way to stay bought. They are out of scratch now, and perhaps the same democracy we're trying to foist off on the rest of the globe might work for us this one time.

In support of Red Phillips, this should be the end of ALL of our so-called foreign aid, money that, after being stripped of all its sentimental camouflage, has gone to pay thugs to let our elite expand their empire.

The 2 party system has failed us............VOTE BALDWIN 2008!

Until quite recently it was standard protocol for a victor in a war to give a monetary payment to one's adversaries in exchange for land that the latter had held.

More of the harmful fruits of democracy and technocracy: the masses can become outraged and rise up against calm and reasonable peace proposals. The Israeli government can dismantle all illegal settlements and the P.A. can sign a treaty and call for an end to the conflict, but will this stop the violence?

Terrorism, as Mark Hutchinson observed, seems to be an unfortunate and ineradicable facet of modern life.

In other words: Don't take off your Brown Scapular.