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F.O.A.D.

On 3/7/13 11:45 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:56:07 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/7/13 10:46 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:16:29 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

You don't have to go back that far to find examples of religious wars
perpetrated by self-described christians. Christians waged wars on Jews
for many centuries after the Middle Ages. Christians waged war against
Muslims in the 1990s.

Europeans reoccupied the holy land in 1948. That is the current
crusade

If you are referring to the Jews, they were occupying the
"Holy Land" long before the Muslims. Also, the day after the state of
Israel was "declared" in 1948, the neighboring Arab states initiated a
war by invading.

Invading or simply trying to get their land back?

The fact remains that a lot of Europeans moved into a place where they
had no recent heritage and claimed it as their own, much like the
other dozen or so crusades.

I find it funny when people who ridicule the Bible will let a group
use it as the basis for a land grab. There are even a few retired IDF
generals who are saying the current government is going too far,
comparing them to the nazis they moved there to evade.

Invading. The invasions came from without.

Contemporary Jewish society and population in Israel predates 1948.