If these idiots weren't bent on our destruction, the following would be extremely funny!!
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Submitted by DrRJP (United States), Feb 17, 2008 at 17:07

Yassir Arafat had no redeeming qualities, except for his ability to spin a yarn so outlandish that it could pass for a skit on Saturday Night Live.

With a cadre of Palestinian and Egyptian "archaeologists" to take the ball and run, Arafat constantly concocted tall tales about the historical lineage of present-day Palestinians in order to find a suitable gene pool from which he could prove that Palestinians arrived and settled Caanan well before the Hebrew slaves of Egypt.

A-fat's initial comparison to the Phillistines turned out to be a bad choice because they were sea people who lived along the seacoast in Gaza, and because they never established any settlement in Caanan. The Phillistines made their living as marauders and, as such, they are comparable to the Vikings of Greenland and Scandinavia who terrorized the countrysides of Britain and France.

Since the Philistines never occupied Caanan, Arafat had to search for another pre-Israel lineage to stake his claim. Bingo! Here come the Caanans!

First of all, A-fat could not have chosen a more appropriate group of ancestors. Caananites were the scum of the ancient world. If you thought that the Philistines were bad, they couldn't hold a candle to the psycho-killers in Caanan. They created all sorts of "innovative methods of execution" long before any other group in history. They practiced child and human sacrifice, and would drink their blood to "gain strength" form their enemies. They raped and strangled "virgins" to appease their gods.

But, these minutia never fazed the ever-clever A-fat. The only thing that did it for him was that the Caanites were "there" before the Israelites.

I say, "there," because they never stayed in one place for too long. After they had exhausted the land and their resources, they would take off for yet another village to pillage.

People ask, "Why did a loving God command that the Israelites kill every living thing in Caanan, including women, children, and animals? Why didn't God do it Himself""

This is one of the most perplexing questions ever asked about God, but the answer is really simple:

In the 21st Century CE , and in every age since 1250-1550BCE, Jews have had to face one mortal enemy after another, who are all bent on not only the total annihilation of Jews, but also their heritage. After they escaped from one mortal enemy, Egypt, they arrived at the gates of another, the Caananities.

Sure, God could have kicked the Caananites out with a flick of his finger, but that would be analogous to the "Give a man a fish/Teach him how to fish" parable. In other words, the Israelites would have to learn how to not only defeat their enemies, but also recognize the existence of pure evil in them that is so strong, that its effects all living things around it.

Knowing that they could not exist "side-by-side" with an enemy who would not even break a sweat to eliminate the Jewish People, as they had with other cultures. In the face of that stark reality, and, of course, doing what God wanted them to do, they wiped the slate clean.

I know that some of you cannot justify in your mind the idea of a "preemptive strike," which, essentially describes their conquest of Caanan. However, the world,as a whole, was not quite as civilized and developed socialized, 3,000 years ago, as it is today. On the other hand, the Caananites and the Palestinians could have been made from the same mold.

Any way, I digress.

The point of this discourse was to remind readers that Jews, and only Jews, have been hated for more than three millenia -- which is a "distinction held by no other group of people. What other group in the world (and nation in the world) has to devote every single minute of every single hour to defending itself from outside marauders?

We are, at the point, where Palestinian, Egyptian, Iranian, and other Muslim "scholars" have concluded that there never was a First or Second Temple in Jerusalem, that all of the Jews who arrived in "Palestine" before becoming a state, were refugees from Europe, that Jews are the descendants of monkeys and pigs, and that all of the Jewish patriarchs were actually Muslims!

We can all tip our hat to that fun-loving Roman Emperor, Hadrian, who decided to eradicate any memory of Israel by changing its name to Syria-Palestina -- named after the Jews primary enemies, the Syrians and the Phillistines -- and by also changing Jerusalem's name after he had the temple plowed under the ground.

For some, unknown reason, Palestinians do not pay homage to Hadrian, especially after all the things he's done for them and their propaganda. Without old Had, they would not even have a name to call themselves, although I'd bet that there are a few thousand names that our readers might suggest they adopt!

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