Stuff I don't understand about Bush's speech

[SteveDallas]

Originally posted by Undertoad
OK. So Bush uses the words of Moses speaking to the children of Israel as part of a statement demanding that Arabs operate a certain way.

In that way, I pick "D" of the choices above. Bush has basically given the Palestinians his long laundry list of what they'd need to do before statehood was on the table... and backed it up with Jewish scripture. Chance of Palestinians taking that seriously: damn near zero, am I wrong?

If I recall what meager religious study I've had correctly, the group of writings Christians call the Old Testament and Jews call the Tanakh is also considered holy by Moslems. The Quran was delivered to Mohammed by an angel, and was sort of "the" revelation, but it was not seen to invalidate the Hebrew scriptures, and I believe Islam traces itself back to Abraham. For that matter, (and I'm not sure if this is "orthodox" or something that's not universally held) Jesus is considered an important prophet by at least some Moslems, though of course not divine in the sense of the Christian trinity, and not as significant a prophet as Mohammed.

So, in fact, W used a quotation from Deuteronomy that was likely to be recognized by both the Jews and the Moslems. I spose he's come a long way since he was talking about crusades.

Somebody please correct me if I've messed anything up.