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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
In the 5th Century AD ... Aquileia ... located where the east coast of the Italian peninsula meets the mainland ... was the second largest port in the Roman Empire ... second only to Ostia, the port of Rome.
But then the Huns came swooping out of the Asian steppes ... plundering, pillaging, and murdering everyone before them. The Aquileians fled in alarm out into the swamps ... the only place where the horses of the Huns couldn't follow them.
They were chased from their homes ... and isolated on mosquito-ridden islets in the middle of the swamps, marshes, and lagoons of the Adriatic Sea. They made the best of this dreadful situation ... turning to the sea for sustenance and economic opportunity.
But soon the world stood in awe of these isolated, battered refugees from Aquileia ... as they built their new home ... a city they called Venezia ... known to us as Venice.
If the Aquileians could build the Venetian Empire ... the most powerful and prosperous society of the late Middle Ages and the Rinascente ... and still the most beautiful city in the world ... after being chased into the malarial swamps of the Adriatic ... why can't the Palestinians build a successful society in their new homeland ... on a beautiful stretch of the sun-lapped shores of the Mediterranean?
Stop making excuses for these hate-filled, murderous people ... because ...
... because in doing so ... it only reveals your deep hatred of the Jewish people.
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i wonder how much dialogue is stifled because people don't want to be accused of 'hating' someone they disagree with....how much of a free pass does israel get because of just what you finished your post with? no one wants to be accused of hating, so how much silence is there? israel should always be allowed to do whatever it wants, because any disagreement means only one thing?? anti-semitism? that's ridiculous. how britain, the us, or anyone else thought that giving the land to israel 50-some years ago would actually work is beyond me. how much of the extreme hate directed towards the U.S. by arab countries is due to our support of israel??? a ton of it.