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that the Holocaust never happened. Muslim clerics are preaching and teaching that the Jewish people have no historic claim to the land of Israel, there was no king David, there was no king Solomon, there was no temple, no Israeli people ever lived there, it was always Arabs. To help bolster this claim Muslims are also destroying historical archaeological places that might contradict their fairy tale. And most still refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist.

Israel has been pressured, since the intifada' began early this decade, to give up precious land to the Palestinian Arabs for the Arab's autonomous use. "Land for peace!" went the chant, "No land, no peace." The leaders of the insurrection stated that there would be no cessation of violence unless and until Israel gave the Palestinians some land of their own.

Reluctantly, and against sage advice from within Israel, the leaders of Israel sought peace and gave up the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. So what has the result been? Have the Palestinian Arabs lived up to their word? Have they taken their land and made it into a thriving example of industrious thrift and developed a growing economy?

Well, not exactly. They have taken the established, productive Israeli agricultural fields and turned them into something of a 7th-century, third-world barrenness; the rest of the strip is also similarly trashed. Have they lived peacefully with their neighbors? Well, if you call launching thousands and thousands of rockets at innocent Israeli civilians peaceful, then yes, they have.

And now there is the likes of Condoleezza Rice telling Israeli leaders that not only must they give up more land, which the Palestinians can use as platforms for terror attacks, but to also allow the Palestinians to have their own sovereign state within the bounds of Israel's country. Some are going so far as saying that Israel should give up Jerusalem for a Palestinian capital city.

So do the Palestinians really want peace? Or do they want the destruction of Israel? Their actions over the last 60 years would demonstrate that peace is not their goal, rather, it is conquest.

They claim that they have ancestral rights to the land of Palestine. However, so many have forgotten that their land and people were allied with Germany on the 20th century war stage and the Germans did not win either war, which means that Arabs lost as well; to the victor go the spoils. Hence, Britain, France and the United States, enemies of Germany and her allies, gained

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