
Originally Posted by
Jorge
Well, I for one find it “hard to understand thisâ€. How could this be achieved considering that Israel is the only non-Moslem country in the whole region? Does he propose to convert all Moslems to another faith? Some sort of evangelical crusade?
That procedure wouldn’t be a very clever one because over the ages we Jews suffered far more in the hands of the Christians than of the Moslems. There’s no guarantee really that Christians will not revert in the future to their old habits so it would be like exchanging cinders for a fire.
Or is his solution far more drastic, as may be inferred from another paragraph of his?, quote:
That is, not to convert them to the True Faith as a first step, but first to destroy them utterly and then, if there are any left, to rebuild them in “your imageâ€. Which image might be that? That of SteveMetch and the ones that think like him? That again would be unwise because, in that new image they would be more barbaric and bloodthirsty than what most Moslems seem to be nowadays.
By contrast to those grandiose enterprises, the ideas I was proposing, that is, diplomatic negotiations to pave the way to an eventual peace, look far too modest. They don't imply a New World Order or a Final Solution. Just a procedure where contenders would try to smooth their differences in a civilized manner.
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