>>This is year 2007.
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>>Genocide happened over 60 years ago, and was done by completely different animal and in completely different world, time and mindframe all together.
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>>In all his crazyness, Hitler believed that it was ok to attack 'inferior races', bomb their countries, jail/extinct people in gettoes/camps and all that. Hitler also bombed Belgrade in (his mind) 'Preemptive strike' back in 1941, so how / under what excuse this can be ok today ?
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>>Does today's Iran ressembles Nazy Germany of 1937 to you in any way ?
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>No, but the noises coming out of Iran today are the same ones coming out of Egypt in 1967 when Nassar was getting everyone on board to push the Jews into the sea. The agenda was explicitly kill them all. King Faisel was clear on that as well and the entire Arab world thought that was a great idea.

That is way to parranoid.
I think that all of them learned lesson back in 1967, and would never jump such train again. Israel is where it is and will stay there. Arabs will hate/badmouth them for eternity, and no LandBack4Peace will ever change that.
Nonetheless, they hv to find the way to coexist in the neighbourhood.

As I said this is year 2007, Israelis and Arabs got to move on.
I think that US did Israel very bad 'favour' by going on Afganistan/Iraq and Israel on the other hand just might decide to shot themself in foot (again)
by doing unilateral strike on Iran.

That would only ensure that what has been going on for last 40 years will
be going on for another 140 years, and that is whole nation being army at constant perpetual fear and war with neighbours. If if they want to live this way forever fine, but question is how long whole neighborhood will agree to suffer because of that.

Now that Arafat is dead, and everybody in the region is fedup with the situation in Iraq - Iran could be as a matter of fact, actual key to achieve any sort of lasting peace in the region. They are only one who can talk to
all Palestinian fractions , Hizbullah and meny others 'players' there whom you don't wanna talk/deal by yourselves. Smacking someone (Iran) right across the face can hardly ever make any relationship get better.

Iran have to be taken seriosely (nuclear research) but also with some due respect. Respect is the keyword here, you know how things works with people of middleeast.
There are certain lines that should not be crossed EVER, if you ever want to have peace here..

So, Peace4Change :)

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>The Holocaust was over 60 years ago. Masada was almost 2000 years ago. But every Israeli soldier is taken to Masada to be sworn in. History has a way of living a long time. I was in Jerusalem shortly after the 67 war. A senior IDF officer who had been in the Warsaw Ghetto as a teenager had been in the wave that was the first to break through to The Wall. He showed me the number tattooed on his arm. He told me "The next time they come looking for us, they know where to find us." I've known a lot of hard men. I had never met anyone who impressed me more as being completely serious.
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>Yes, they take this very seriously. As I said, remember Osirak.
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>This is simply the reality of the Middle East. The Yom Kippur war was very traumatic in 73. In a nuclear world leaving yourself vulnerable to surprise attacks cannot be an option. You are talking about "Is there an excuse ..." etc. I'm just saying people look at the world according to their own national/tribal experience.
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>Golda Meier said "Israel will not commit suicide so that the world will think well of her"
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>The problem with the Arab and Persion culture which you correctly identified as being fond of bragging and talking trash is that you may find someone takes you seriously. Saddam was moving in that direction. Ahmadinejad is definitely pushing it.
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>I don't think it will come to that but I think efforts to get Iran to see things differently are very much influenced by the US and many European countries as seeing Israel's position as I have described.