Menachem Begin<\/a>, of all people, representing the Christian ideal and deserving unlimited Christian loyalty were \u2014 shall we say \u2014 less than completely enthusiastic.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t for a moment attempt to whitewash the various evils visited upon innocent Jewish people and others by Palestinian terrorism, but, unfortunately, Jewish hands are also not entirely clean in the ugliness that has afflicted Palestine for more than a century now.<\/p>\n
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And I\u2019m especially bothered when I see some Evangelical Protestants, especially, treat the Arab-Israeli conflict as a battle of obvious good (represented by the righteous Jews who simply want to regain their ancestral land) against obvious evil (the heathen Muslims who seek to steal Jewish land from the Holocaust survivors who have settled upon it and made it to blossom as the rose).<\/p>\n
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I wish the situation were so simple and clear-cut.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately, many of the Jews aren\u2019t pious or even righteous. \u00a0And, although I don\u2019t concede that Muslims deserve to be oppressed in the first place, many of the Palestinian Arabs aren\u2019t even Muslims. \u00a0They\u2019re Christians. \u00a0And they have been for many centuries \u2014 Christianity, after all, didn\u2019t begin in Canterbury, Wittenberg, or even Rome, but in Palestine \u2014 and their roots in Palestine go back to far before the founding of the State of Israel. \u00a0Accordingly, they\u2019re mystified when their ostensible Christian brothers and sisters in the West seem to support the alleged \u201cbiblical right\u201d of the Jews to take their land.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, I hope that many Latter-day Saints will read Sahar Qumsiyeh\u2019s book. \u00a0It will give them a different perspective on a sad historical situation and a painful continuing reality that is a great deal more complex than many Americans realize.<\/p>\n
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