XPost: soc.culture.israel, talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.liberalism   
   From: MEjercit@HotMail.com   
      
   NefeshBarYochai wrote:   
   > Ever since this statement was made   
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   > One day after the State of Israel declared itself as an independent nation   
   > (May 14, 1948), Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Transjordanian troops,   
   > supported by Saudi and Yemenite troops, attacked the nascent Jewish state,   
   > triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. On that day, Azzam Pasha [secretary-   
   > general of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952] announced:   
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   > "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be   
   > spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".   
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   > Various Muslim nations and organizations in the Middle East have been   
   > concentrating their efforts at destroying Israel, and have initiated   
   > many wars and operations against it.   
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   > Yet, amazingly, since then, about 40 times more Muslims have been killed   
   > by other Muslims in the Middle East, than in all the confrontations with   
   > Israel combined.   
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       I guess attacking Israel was not such a good idea.   
      
      
     Michael   
      
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