<p>logic, al-jazeera is a joke, yes I have watched them before (not regularly, just seen some clips). </p>
<p>AKDigger - You’re acting like we’re waving the Fox pom-poms here and you’re trying to convince us it’s wrong or something. No, you asked a question, we answered it, you brought up Fox and made a sweeping generalization, I’m saying it’ll be harder making friends like that…seriously, bring your ideas and share your unique cultural viewpoints, but leave the attitude in Egypt…no one likes snooty foreigners. :)</p>
<p>This article again shows that lack of morals of the IDF! They are running down elderly civilians, laughing at the prospect of killing a pregnant women and her unborn child.</p>
<p>@Molly4190: I brought up Fox as an example of a source of media that gives a false image of both the crisis and Arab. A false image that Cuse shares. I see that you have a better knowledge of whats happening, tho. . . He said that what was happening in Gaza wasn’t a genocide*. I do realize what you mean about the attitude, but at the same time I don’t expect you to know what this attitude is attributed to. It takes living in the actual region to know. These are my political beliefs, I do generally keep them to myself around people I’m getting to know and in friendships (I do have Israeli friends).</p>
<p>Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.</p>
<p>No, it shows the lack of taste of a few members of the IDF. Seriously, Hamas has done far worse. </p>
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<p>False image? The only false images around here are the ones you are portraying. You keep bringing up Fox News for some reason and attributing it to me, when I have probably watched a combined 30 seconds of Fox News coverage in the past year. </p>
<p>What is happening in Gaza isn’t a genocide. It isn’t even close to a genocide. Trust me, if the IDF wanted to get rid of the Palestinians, there wouldn’t be a Gaza strip right now. The IDF isn’t trying to “cleanse” the area of Palestinians; they are trying to get rid of Hamas terrorists who are standing in the way of a lasting peace settlement.</p>
<p>and stop saying that the israelies came and took the palestinians land. jews have been living in that area for thousands of years as well. and i wont use the bible as my source. the majority of jews actually lived in israel until the babylonians came and kicked them out, which was thousands of years ago. so it did belong to them. playing the game “who was there first” will not resolve anything, so dont play that card. </p>
<p>also stop making gaza look like an innocent country, it is run by terrorists. arabs enjoy more freedom in israel than in almost any other arab country. can you say the same for the jews. thousands of jews were kicked out of yemen and syria, is that ok? do you protest that outrage as well. and jordan has actually killed more palestinians than israel has and kicked all of them out, (known as black septmeber if you know your history)…do you protest this too? </p>
<p>and i am from central asia btw, if thats ok. i hope i am not too distant from the conflict to have an opinoin…</p>
<p>seriously, most people need to take history course of the middle east before arguing sheer nonsense.</p>
<p>Stop saying “jews” when you mean Israel. Not all jews support their actions.</p>
<p>Anyway, the Palestinians didn’t kick the Jews out. A group of conservative Jews known as Zionists terrorized the Palestinians out of their land in the 1940s.</p>
<p>“arabs enjoy more freedom in israel than in almost any other arab country.”</p>
<p>Don’t be dumb. Arabs are treated like **** in Israel.</p>
<p>your right, it would be nonsense to think that arabs enjoy more freedoms in the only democratic state in the middle east, they probably have much more freedoms in countries that are ruled by a dicatator and dont allow women to drive and where the gdp per capita is practically nothing.</p>
<p>and i never said palestianians kicked out the jews, i said all the other arab countries did. i was just wondering if you are as outraged about this as you are about the palestinians you hypocrite.</p>
<p>@mitssu87: Ignorance? You’re the one who got Saudi Arabia involved, what does S.A. have to do with Palestine, they are not getting involved. The Arabs in Israeli are not treated equally. You ARE the one who is ignorant. <a href=“BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli Arabs: 'Unequal citizens'”>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4493525.stm</a>. I know through experience that Arab-Israelis are not treated as equal citizens. They have to wait longer in checkpoints even though they are “Israelis.” Do you call this equality!</p>
<p>I truly pity your ignorance and lack of clear judgement.</p>
<p>I do think Arabs in Israel would enjoy more freedoms in other Arab countries. Tho, I don’t think the same would apply to Israelis. Have you ever traveled to the Middle-east?</p>
<p>First of all, Palestine itself is a democracy.</p>
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<p>Third, yes, there is massive anti-Semitism in the Arab world, but that isn’t the issue here, the issue is Israel’s attacks on Palestine. The Jewish exodus from Arab countries ended in the 70’s, while the I/P conflict is ongoing.</p>
<p>AK, the Arab countries kicked out Jews from 1940 to 1970 in response to Zionism.</p>
<p>and you admit that jews were kicked out of most of the arab counties. so why dont all those counties allow jews back in. why dont i see people protesting that? i was just trying to show how so many people have no idea what is going on, but just jump on the bandwagon only because they see the media cover gaza so much</p>
<p>i am done arguing with people as dumb as AK. you are questioning by birthdate when you are the one applying to college, so you cant be more than 17 or 18. you think no jews were every kicked out of arab states? you are in need of a serious history lesson, you are the exact type i was referring to in my above post. i truly hope you stay in egypt because your kind will not be wanted here and with your ignorant attitute you will not make any friends. you act like the sole expert because you lived in the middle ease, its pathetic how little you actually know. this is a waste of my time and am done with this thread</p>
<p>uhhh… any that are really religious (Liberty, Bob Jones, etc). Wake and Vandy are not conservative. They might be moderate… but the vast majority of college professors, and college students, are liberal.</p>