the Jews were exiled - or empty of Jews. They didn\'t just show up there after the war, like colonialist conquerors. What makes people think that they did? Who said so? And why? Why are the Islamic propagandists so intent on denying the Jews their history and their homeland? Why do they say there was never a temple in Jerusalem, never mind two of them? Why do they claim Jews have no connections to the country, in spite of numerous evidence to the contrary? What is it that they are so afraid of? In 1948 the Palestinians were born as a people, not before, and they have - of course - a right to their own country. The problem is that they just don\'t want to share it. With anybody. Especially not the Jews. The Palestinians know that their \"return\" means the end of Israel - and that\'s why they are driving this issue just as they are driving the issue of never ever accepting Israel as a fact, or recognizing Israel as a state - as if they had their own. That\'s the only thing that is needed - for the Palestinians to recognize Israel and admit that they have a right to live and exist. Then the talk can begin. But how can you talk to a terrorist government that preaches the destruction of your state, your home, your life? And you call the Israelis what? \"The 1948 war was planned and and provoked by Israel to gain more territory than the U.N. had allotted for the Jewish state and to expel more Palestinian Arabs.\" you say. Of course - blame the Jews. That\'s what you do best. Not a word of course about the Arab leaders encouraging the Palestinian Arabs to get out in order for them to wipe out the Jews and then return triumphantly - that was the plan. Oh no, the Jews WANTED to be attacked by 5 or 6 Arab countries\' armies - it\'s every Jew\'s dream to be slaughtered by invading enemies! I am a Zionist - and as opposed to many, I know what that word actually means: It means the right to self determination and the right to live in peace in your own country. The Palestinians could do well to try that for a change. The peace bit I mean. It seems to be hard for them as they do nothing but encourage violence and hatred. If you are told there is no hope, eventually you lose it. If you are told you might as well die, you eventually come to believe that. If you are told that Paradise is better than your present miserable existence, then there will never be a shortage of suicide murderers lining up. If you are told Jews are pigs and monkeys and don\'t have the right to live, that you are superior to them, then it\'s not difficult for you to kill them. Not at all. Just like the children were indoctrinated in Nazi Germany, so are the children being indoctrinated in the schools in the Moslem world today. They will grow up to believe that a Jew is inferior and you\'d do best to kill him - in fact, you will be doing the world a favour! These children are the heirs of Hitler and his ilk, the brainwashed human cannon fodder of today - and how does it feel to know that you could have stopped it, if you had just given it some thought? This is not about who is right and who is wrong - this is about loving life - or taking it. Ilan Pappé is the left-wing fanatics\' pet whom they love to quote as if he had any academic standing or credibility. He is a sad and self hating human being with no credibility in any academic circles. I think one should listen to everybody, but only fools take his words to heart - and there are plenty of them, I\'m afraid. I am not afraid of an open debate, but I am afraid of people who listen to people who don\'t know what they are talking about and who\'s only aim seem to be to sow seeds of hatred and death instead of making the most of what little we have got and make a go of it - together.

Mi Grandin Ra\'anana, Israel