Blood and Sand: Books: The New Yorker

from an article
by David Remnick


Blood and Sand: Books: The New Yorker

This article is worth a read. Explains much about the current middle east conflict in a concise easily understandable format.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied

And this is the real reason we might soon be at war with Iran...

And one major point in the very same guy's NEXT book, called "(The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited")...

What's also never mentioned when discussing Palestinian flight is the number of Jews that had to leave all of the surrounding lands where they've lived for centuries because they were expelled by the countries that were about to invade israel...

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I think the entire article points to the fact the Israelis and the Palestinians are equally at fault for today's mess. I could pick out several quotes to support an opposite view than your's. Even Ben-Gurion stated they had stolen Arab land. And realized there could be no Arabs left if Israel was to have peace.
Truth. Truth. Truth. Palestinians and Israelis are fighting over a piece of real estate. The passions have flared so high each side has vowed to annihilate the other.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied

When has Israel "vowed to annihilate" the Palestinians?...Or even Arabs in general?...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Read the article. It was realized long ago that the fact Israel had moved in and taken over was going to make the Palestinians forever enemies. The entire government knew they could not live within the same territory as Palestinians. They got rid of entire villages. Their only mistake in the author's own words was they didn't get rid of ALL of them.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied

From the author...

Hatred derived from paranoia...

PS - It's been 25 years since the last line...Look how BIG Israel's become...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

I don't remember if they were behind Hitler, but they were certainly deeply involved in the worker's revolution in Russia that deposed (killed) the Czar and imposed communism. So at the time the Arabs would have every reason to fear Jewish settlement.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied

Actually, it was the Palestinians who were working with Hitler. The Mufti of Jerrusalem was a genocidal Nazi who headed death squads in the Balkans and who had been promised the extermination of Midddle east Jewry after the Nazis finished off the European Jews. Within the Palestinian mandate, he ruthlessly persecuted both Jews (who were terrorized by the muslims long before the establishment of the Irgun) and any Arabs who opposed his genocidal ambitions.

The Nazi connection is well established, as is the relationship between the Nazi ideology and Hamas/Hizb'Allah and their ilk.

O.K. if you read the article written about the literary career of Morris, see how he originally scouted out facts that were contradictory to the then accepted history of his people. (Kind of like American history tells different stories when it comes to their own ruthlessness in settling this country and expanding to Mexico. Then along comes a Renaissance in historical publishing that tells us a familiar figure in the old west was black and all this time his picture was faded to resemble a white man. And Custer's last stand was a foolish attempt to win political points for it's commander...)
Then as he is inevitably drawn to become a traitor or patriot; his attitude changes.
That is what I wanted you to see. The struggle for survival one-ups the truth about one's own people.
It is a difficult problem -the middle east. But I just wanted to point out there are no good guys.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied