09 November 2003

It's the Jews, not the land

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Arab terrorism against Israel existed prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948.

Examples of Arab terrorism against Jews during the pre-State period include:

  • Anti-Jewish Riots in 1920-21, which was characterized by the brutal murder in Jaffa of the prominent Jewish author Y. Brenner
  • ‘Disturbances’ of 1929, which included the massacre of the Jewish community in Hebron
  • Many incidents of anti-Jewish violence during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 On the eve of the UN Partition Resolution of November 1947, Arab terrorism against Jewish targets steadily rose until it led to the joint Arab invasion of 1948-9.
I need better cites for this, but it’s a start.
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Oh, Canada!

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Efforts by Canada’s cable operators to get regulatory approval to offer more U.S. specialty channels over their digital services hit a wall on Friday.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission turned down the request made in June, saying the cable firms had not made a strong enough case. […]

U.S. channels that were mentioned included HBO, ESPN, Fox News and Nickelodeon Kids.

We’ll have Al-Jazeera, and probably even Hezbollah’s Al-Manar, in Canada before we’re allowed to see Fox News. They might be pro-Islamofascist and antisemitic, but at least they’re not - horrors! - “conservative”.

Living in a bubble isn’t really a viable long term strategy, but then again neither is socialism.

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