Monday, May 19, 2008

The History That Could Have Been

"Whether in our own lives or the life of the world, people have always liked to ask the question WHAT IF?

"Czech journalist: if Israel was not there, the world would be better and safer"

"LONDON, (PIC)-- A prominent Czech journalist stated that if Israel had not been established 60 years ago, the world would have been much better and more stable because the Middle East's history would have been written differently, castigating Czechoslovakia for selling weapons to Israel in the beginning of its foundation.

In an article published in the Czech Lidové noviny newspaper, journalist Peter Zadek said that the Czech arms deals had led to the emergence of a military entity that failed in coexisting peacefully with its Arab neighbors and in respecting international law, adding that those deals also made an entity practicing discrimination against non-Jewish citizens.

Zadek said that if Israel had not come to existence, the Jews would have lived in peace in the countries where the Muslims constitutes a majority as was the case in these states hundreds of years ago and many wars that happened in the past would not have taken place.

The journalist also underlined that because of the establishment of Israel hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost their homes and were forced through generations to struggle to stay alive in refugee camps.

The journalist pointed out in his article that the Zionist project of Theodor Herzl which emerged in the late 19th century called on Jews to seize other peoples' territories and suppress the majorities by force and after the subsequent emigration of Jews in large batches to Palestine, a minority of Jews armed with Czech weapons managed to defeat the Palestinian majority and displace them from their lands.

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