Dr. Wafa Sultan

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Good article in today's Sunday Orange County Register (p. 19), about Dr. Wafa Sultan, a lady psychiatrist from Syria, who is now a naturalized American citizen. This lady had the sheer nads to go on Al-Jazeera television, toe to toe with an Islamic "scholar". Here's a few things this gutsy lady (herself a Muslim) had to say:

"The Jews have come from tragedy and forced the world to respect them - with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling."

"We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a single church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people." (Actually, a few radical Jewish settlers have randomly shot Palestinians dead in public markets, but the lady is still 2 for 3 and that ain't bad.)

"Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind before they demand that humankind respect them."

The "religious scholar" from Egypt refused to even debate with her, simply denouncing her as a heretic. She has since been receiving daily death threats, at her home, here in the United States.

All I can say is welcome to America lady, you're made of the stuff we're looking for. And God help any of your co-religionists who DARE to harm a hair on your head in OUR country.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people." (Actually, a few radical Jewish settlers have randomly shot Palestinians dead in public markets, but the lady is still 2 for 3 and that ain't bad.)

Incorrect. Not recently, but it has happened.
Someone making statements about history should be more careful, but I think that this was a case of "speaking to the audience".

Terrorist bombings. 91 people died.
Bombing of the King David Hotel

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The attack was initially ordered by David Ben Gurion, who was in the United States, but he later changed his mind and ordered the bombing to be cancelled. But Menachem Begin, the head of Irgun, went ahead anyway. Both Ben Gurion and Begin would later become Israeli Prime Ministers. The attack was commanded by Yosef Avni and Yisrael Levi.

Assassination plans. There was also a plot to assassinate Ernest Bevin. There was one successful assassination of a British minister (can't remember his name).

Massacre. During the village de-population of Deir Yassin, 100 out of 700 people were killed, the rest were forced to move.

That is all old news, of course, but interesting because the British govt always classified Begin as a terrorist and would not allow him to travel to England. (Even though he was eventually the Israeli head of state).

After the 1972 Munich massacre, they sent assassins to kill the Palestinian terrorists. They also killed anyone else that they defined as a terrorist or terrorist-associate that could be found. It eventually stopped when they got the wrong guy once.

(Pause for an ironic moment here)
In 1981, they flew jets into Iraq and blew up the Osiraq nuclear reactor because they feared that SH would use it to build Weapons of Mass Destruction.

There is also a question of definition from perspective.
A civilian accidentally killed by a 500 lb dropped by a fighter jet is just as dead as one killed by a car bomb.