Re: Israel/Palestine Conflict 101
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Originally posted by OnyxCougar
I have looked and cannot find a website that contains a non-biased account of how the middle-east (specifically Isreal and Palestine) got to this point.
I'm talking about the source of the problem. Since most of the biblical cities and events happened there, I'm guessing it's religious in nature.
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Rightly noted: religion is a primary cause of biased history. To appreciate pre-20th Century history for that region, view a PBS Television college course called The Western Tradition. History does not justify any religious claims to that land and the changing maps in that history course demonstrate. Literally ever power at one point or another conquered those lands meaning that either everyone or no one has rights to the land.
And so we have one (of many) benchmarks for outright liars. They insist the land historically belongs to a religious group or that *god* promised them the land. It's really bull. The land belongs (moreso) to all people. Conflict directly traceable to those who are so stupid as to believe the propaganda from any religion.
Why was the funeral for Khalil Gibran represented by every major religious leader in the Middle East? Because as a good man, he bluntly criticized all who used religion to make civil and social decisions. Bias so widespread that no religion can be honest. Lies directly traceable to principles on which every religion is based.
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