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Originally posted by

Ted Rudow III,MA

Pray for the poor Palestinians who are suffering so greatly. Pray for the innocent Israelis who die or are wounded in terrorist bombings. Pray for the other Arabs, that they'll stand up for their Palestinian brethren for a change. Pray for the Americans, that they'll make the Israelis toe the line and stop the slaughter. Pray for peace, that's one reason why Palestinians are skeptical about peace treaties and agreements with Israel--nothing ever really changes very much. It just gets worse--for them, that is.
The Israelis and the world media trumpet the "breakthrough agreement" or "historic peace plan." Meanwhile, the settlement building and expansion goes on, under other names and guises, while the bulldozers continue to roll, Palestinian territories and cities are surrounded by roadblocks, barbed wire, tanks and snipers, and things change very little for the poor Palestinians.
Pray for peace for all those people, and especially for the peacemakers--I don't think you can call the U.S. the world's leading champion of peace, considering how many wars and conflicts it's been involved in and considering how eager it is to sell arms to those who would start new ones or keep old ones going!
Ask the Palestinians, who are being tear-gassed by American-made chemicals, shot by American weapons, and bombed by American missiles, how peaceful the U.S is. American arms how peaceful the U.S. is. Or ask the millions of others who are involved in conflicts in Africa, Asia, the Mid-east and Europe, fueled and kept going by low-cost American arms, how peaceful the U.S. is.
If the U.S. would export half as much peace as it does weapons--working on feeding the poor, clothing the needy, and providing jobs to the destitute--then it would make the world a far better place!
Ted Rudow III,MA
former grad student

Originally posted by

Ted Rudow III,MA

Pray for the poor Palestinians who are suffering so greatly. Pray for the innocent Israelis who die or are wounded in terrorist bombings. Pray for the other Arabs, that they'll stand up for their Palestinian brethren for a change. Pray for the Americans, that they'll make the Israelis toe the line and stop the slaughter. Pray for peace, that's one reason why Palestinians are skeptical about peace treaties and agreements with Israel--nothing ever really changes very much. It just gets worse--for them, that is.
The Israelis and the world media trumpet the "breakthrough agreement" or "historic peace plan." Meanwhile, the settlement building and expansion goes on, under other names and guises, while the bulldozers continue to roll, Palestinian territories and cities are surrounded by roadblocks, barbed wire, tanks and snipers, and things change very little for the poor Palestinians.
Pray for peace for all those people, and especially for the peacemakers--I don't think you can call the U.S. the world's leading champion of peace, considering how many wars and conflicts it's been involved in and considering how eager it is to sell arms to those who would start new ones or keep old ones going!
Ask the Palestinians, who are being tear-gassed by American-made chemicals, shot by American weapons, and bombed by American missiles, how peaceful the U.S is. American arms how peaceful the U.S. is. Or ask the millions of others who are involved in conflicts in Africa, Asia, the Mid-east and Europe, fueled and kept going by low-cost American arms, how peaceful the U.S. is.
If the U.S. would export half as much peace as it does weapons--working on feeding the poor, clothing the needy, and providing jobs to the destitute--then it would make the world a far better place!
Ted Rudow III,MA
former grad student

Originally posted by

Leila Forouhi

Thank-you Spartan Daily for supporting this student activity. Muslim students need to unite with other students on campus no matter what religion or race - I would like to see a dialogue between the Jewish and Muslim student groups. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us.

Originally posted by

Vusi Maseko

I am upset by such twisted protests such as this one. In South Africa we blacks were persecuted for being black and African. We were humiliated and suffered greatly by a racist government bent on white supreme racism. Please note that we did not start wars (the Arabs started the so-called "occupation" by attacking Israel not once but a couple of times), we did not perform suicide bombings (before the first suicide bombings there was no security checkpoint of "apartheid" walls in the Israel) we did not strap bombs around our children nor did we send them to school to learn about how satanic and evil the whites where (something that happens daily in the Arab schools in Historical Israel).

Lastly, this article pains me because we blacks - Africans – Bantoes, Xhosas; Zulus lived in South Africa for thousands of years with no white man here before us. Our claim to this country is valid in that we have always lived here. The Arabs only arrived in Historical Israel after a thousand or two years of being an Israeli homeland. They occupied what was not theirs and now they are complaining that the original people came back to their houses, just like the racist whites in South Africa is complaining about us taking back our farms and cities.

The West Bank, Gaza – these are Jewish homelands – just like Pretoria (Arabs=whites) are ancient Tswane and like Natal= Arab Palestine) is the kingdom of Zululand.

One more thing – it is important to note that this conflict has its roots in Arab culture/religion which clearly emphasises that once a place has become Muslim that it should never fall into the hands of Jews and Christians again. This is why they are lying to their children; this is why the other Arabs won't accept them back to their original homelands like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria etc.

Christians who support these Arabs should convert to Islam - so that we can know who is our enemy and who is not.

Originally posted by

Vusi Maseko

I am upset by such twisted protests such as this one. In South Africa we blacks were persecuted for being black and African. We were humiliated and suffered greatly by a racist government bent on white supreme racism. Please note that we did not start wars (the Arabs started the so-called "occupation" by attacking Israel not once but a couple of times), we did not perform suicide bombings (before the first suicide bombings there was no security checkpoint of "apartheid" walls in the Israel) we did not strap bombs around our children nor did we send them to school to learn about how satanic and evil the whites where (something that happens daily in the Arab schools in Historical Israel).

Lastly, this article pains me because we blacks - Africans – Bantoes, Xhosas; Zulus lived in South Africa for thousands of years with no white man here before us. Our claim to this country is valid in that we have always lived here. The Arabs only arrived in Historical Israel after a thousand or two years of being an Israeli homeland. They occupied what was not theirs and now they are complaining that the original people came back to their houses, just like the racist whites in South Africa is complaining about us taking back our farms and cities.

The West Bank, Gaza – these are Jewish homelands – just like Pretoria (Arabs=whites) are ancient Tswane and like Natal= Arab Palestine) is the kingdom of Zululand.

One more thing – it is important to note that this conflict has its roots in Arab culture/religion which clearly emphasises that once a place has become Muslim that it should never fall into the hands of Jews and Christians again. This is why they are lying to their children; this is why the other Arabs won't accept them back to their original homelands like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria etc.

Christians who support these Arabs should convert to Islam - so that we can know who is our enemy and who is not.