response to the Masada article on I/P conflict.

I posted that link to another internet-group I'm involved with, asking if,
in the interests of getting as many views as possible, there were
similarly in-depth arguments from different points of view.

Here was a response:

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>http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/jewsfjustice.cfm
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>The link above is from Jews for Justice. It is extremely well referenced
>and throughly demolishes essays like the one you cite.
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>Part of what makes it so devastating is that it digs into the hisorical
>record to show what key Zionist leaders really thought - as opposed to
>what they argued publically - for example the following quote from David
>Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister:
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>"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader, I would never
>make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.
>Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? There has
>been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their
>fault? They only see one thing: we came here and stole their country. Why
>should they accept that?"
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>David Ben-Gurion quoted in
>"The Jewish Paradox"by Nahum Goldmann,
>former president of the World Jewish Congress.
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