Huh? Where did you learn your history? The Berlin Wall didn't go up until Aug 1961, in part as a challenge to the new President and in part as a retaliation for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This was a full 16 years after the end of the war in Europe.

As for the 100 million more than the economy can support, how do you figure? We're certainly not 100 million more than we were in 2004, and we were certainly prosperous then.

"couldn't control"? What makes you think we couldn't control that land?

There was no reason to recreate Israel anywhere but in Israel; suggesting it be recreated in Guam or Puerto Rico is just silliness.
As has been pointed out, Israelis are historically Arabic; therefore they belong in the middle east.

Of course, all this turmoil since WWII could have been avoided if we'd just helped the Nazis wipe out every Jew on the planet.

By the same argument you're proposing, the world would have been better had the U.S. not occupied the unused land in the North American continent to build a western civilization. Better we continue to huddle on the east coast, or go and form societies in Cambodia or the Congo.

Oh, I at first thought you were talking about "Vespasian's Monkey"... General Silva, who besieged Masada.

"I wonder if Christ had been born in, say, the province of Britannia rather than the province of Judea, and a similar uproar came about, whether Aulus Platius (the Roman Prelate in Britain at about the same time) would have been written about as much as Pontius Pilatus. "

How could He have been? There were not an overabundance of Jews in Britannia during the Roman colonial occupation of that island. There was no Judaic culture in Britannia, if by some miracle Christ had been born there.

There may have been many individuals in Britannia during the Roman colonial occupation who preached pacifism, compassion, industry and honesty. But they didn't have the Judaic culture to make anything of it.

"what if Pilate had said, "I declare today is a "gift of the Emperor" and there will be no punishment meted out, further, I shall declare that ALL those condemned in holding are hereby pardoned and freed"... "

Not as much. There would have been chaos in Judea, and lots of Roman legionnaires would have died putting out brushfires. It would be the equivalent of Obama's declaration of amnesty for illegal aliens. There's a reason Pilate washed his hands. He saw the political winds, and followed Roman policy of letting the locals rule themselves as much as possible. In feeding Christ to the powers that be in Judea, he helped keep the lid on the tinderbox, as you put it (forgive the mixed-metaphor).

In the following movie clip, which one is an Arab; the guy who got shot, or the guy who shot him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1zpHW3...

Modern Israelis are *culturally* Western European, at least in part. Because the modern Israel was largely populated by refugees from Europe. Whose ancestors got to Europe during the many Diasporas the Jews experienced over the millennia.
While the Arabs who remained in the middle east are primarily middle eastern, culturally.

So don't play anti-semitic games with me. I long ago learned who, historically, the good guys were and who the bad guys were. The Roman Legionnaire, the British Tommy, the American G.I. Joe, the IDF soldier... all pushing the envelope of civilization. All fighting against barbarians to defend islands of civilization.

"Hitler used tanks to conquer France; we used tanks to liberate it. NOT the same thing" - George Will in response to Phil Donahue trying to inply a Nietzschean equivalence between us and the Iraqis during the Gulf War

As I pointed out, the Israelis are not practicing racial apartheid.

Somebody forget that the Israelites *are* an Arabic tribe?
This is the same logic that calls Canadians and Mexicans "American". Technically correct, but in practical terms, a rhetorical split hair.

No doubt.

Particularly when they have no desire to assimilate, but merely to institute their own society here. As you say, that will cause what they sought to be lost.

The Berlin Wall wasn't built to keep anyone out, but to keep the easterners in. Totally different concept.

From Wikipedia, but generally in line with the history that I was taught about WW2: From 1939 to 1941 Iran's top foreign trade partner (nearly 50% of its total trade) was Germany, which helped Iran open modern sea and air communications with the rest of the world.[12]

In 1941, the Allies forced Reza Shah to abdicate the throne to his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His pro-Nazi followers in the Iranian government such as Fazlollah Zahedi [13] and Mohammad Hosein Airom shared similar fates. The British believed that Zahedi was planning a general uprising in cooperation with German forces. He was arrested, where he was found with German weapons and correspondence from a German agent. He was interned in Palestine.

Not really an ally, but a "conquered" nation. And from what I remember, there were quite a few Iranians during the war that provided covert support for the Nazi's.

That depends on which Arabs you're referring to. Some middle-eastern countries sided with the Allies, and others sided with the Axis. So there were Arabs on both sides of the conflict.

The diseases are not a threat. We have hospitals to deal with that. It's not a problem. As for gangs, they wouldn't be a problem if drugs were legal.

1) Yes they do. There's a documentary called "The Stones Cry Out" which discusses the issue in great detail. You can watch a trailer on the official website:

http://www.thestonescryoutmovie.com/

2) Fascism is right-wing. Any and all attempts to reclassify fascism as supposedly being left-wing are nothing more than historical revisionism and propaganda perpetrated by right-wing fundamentalists who don't want to accept the fact that their ideology leads to tyranny and despotism. It's no different than the right-wing's attempts to cast Adolf Hitler as an atheist, even though he was actually a Roman Catholic.

3) Technically yes, I suppose you're right on this point. The violence did come first. After all, you can't build a wall around stolen territory unless you first clear the land of its original inhabitants, which is an act that requires violence.

I have absolutely nothing against Jews. My issue is with the actions of the government of Israel. All governments must be subject to criticism. A state does not become except from criticism simply because it happens to be run by members of the Judaic faith.