Author |
Share Topic Topic Search Topic Options
|
TheGreatSimba
Chieftain
Joined: 22-Nov-2009
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1152
|
Quote Reply
Topic: "As the Arabs see the Jews" - 1947 Posted: 07-Jun-2010 at 19:48 |
|
"As the Arabs see the Jews"
His Majesty King Abdullah,
The American Magazine
November, 1947 |
Summary
This fascinating essay, written by
King Hussein’s
grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months
before the 1948
Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the
mistaken view that Arab
opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of
longstanding religious
or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long
history of peaceful
coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically
suffered far more at the
hands of Christian Europe. Pointing to the tragedy of the holocaust
that Jews suffered
during World War II, the monarch asks why America and Europe are
refusing to accept more
than a token handful of Jewish immigrants and refugees. It is
unfair, he argues, to make
Palestine, which is innocent of anti-Semitism, pay for the crimes of
Europe. King Abdullah
also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when
Arabs have been the
overwhelming majority there for nearly 1300 uninterrupted years? The
essay ends on an
ominous note, warning of dire consequences if a peaceful solution
cannot be found to
protect the rights of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine. |
This is a very interesting read. Please click this here to read King Abdullah's full essay.
|
I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time.
|
|
Shield-of-Dardania
Consul
Suspended
Joined: 23-Mar-2010
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 357
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-Jun-2010 at 20:35 |
Great stuff, TGS. Considering the multitudes of naive innocents - as well as not-so-innocents - around who're still, hopelessly, seeing things through American- and Israeli-tinted glasses.
Keep up the good work, mate.
Edited by Shield-of-Dardania - 07-Jun-2010 at 20:36
|
History makes everything. Everything is history in the making.
|
|
Night Crawler
Knight
Joined: 02-Jun-2010
Location: UK
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 60
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-Jun-2010 at 23:01 |
By the way without the west wouldn't the Arabs still be under Ottoman rule?-- Oh we forget that don't we Sod oh my oh my you need to read some more.
Not saying that the Allies didn't muck up the borders, they did-But at least they got freedom.
Edited by Night Crawler - 08-Jun-2010 at 02:17
|
|
Night Crawler
Knight
Joined: 02-Jun-2010
Location: UK
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 60
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 07-Jun-2010 at 23:13 |
This is why I don't agree that the Jews (or Christains) would be safe under an Arab state
Found this online:
Sura (8:55) - Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve
Sura (48:29) - Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves
Sura (9:30) - And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah... Allah (Himself) fights against them. How perverse are they!
Sura (8:12) - I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them
Sura (9:123) - O you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness
Sura (5:33) - The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement
Edited by Night Crawler - 08-Jun-2010 at 02:16
|
|
DreamWeaver
Colonel
Suspended
Joined: 02-May-2010
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 555
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Jun-2010 at 04:15 |
Yet doeshistory support youre argument Night Crawler? How have Christians and Jews fared under their rule?
|
|
Night Crawler
Knight
Joined: 02-Jun-2010
Location: UK
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 60
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Jun-2010 at 04:27 |
History is kinder--The Jews did well under the Ottomans (not as well under the Arabs) the Christians not as good. However this new more extreme Islam is the problem. The Christians were cruel to the Jews in the past. i think a lot of that his turned around.
In the context of 1948 I think the letter is accurate, it wouldn't be in 1998.
|
|
TheGreatSimba
Chieftain
Joined: 22-Nov-2009
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1152
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Jun-2010 at 07:20 |
Yes but this radicalism came from somewhere did it not?
|
I use CAPS for emphasis, not yelling. Just don't want to have to click the bold button every time.
|
|
opuslola
Tsar
suspended
Joined: 23-Sep-2009
Location: Long Beach, MS,
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 4620
|
Quote Reply
Posted: 08-Jun-2010 at 15:19 |
Yes, TGS, the "radicalism came from some-where?"
Where do you perceive it came from?
I'll bet I know the answer?
|
http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/
|
|