Putting a bad myth to rest
Bookworm on May 09 2008 at 11:10 am | Filed under: Israel
Mona Charen has a short, lucid column that nice exposes the myth that Jews were a minority in the Promised Land who deliberately and brutally exiled the majority Arab population. (What’s interesting is how those same people exercised about the mythical Arab expulsions from Jewish land never seem particularly perturbed about the unquestioned expulsion of Jews from Arab lands in the years after 1948. Double standards tell so much about people, don’t they?)
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At 8,019 square miles, Israel is just 0.25% of the Middle East. The other 3,186,051 square miles are controlled by Arab states. So why does all the talk about “Land for Peace” involve Israel giving to Arabs. This has been going on, unchallenged, for some time. More recently, we hear about how Israel cutting off the starving people in Gaza. The last time I looked at the map, Gaza is on the Mediterranean coast, about 100 miles from Lebanon by water and bordering Egypt by land. Is it not possible to bring all the food and medicine to Gaza by truck or boat?