"Find one issue where he agrees with Republicans and do you seriously think the Palestinians would cease their attacks if Israel completely withdrew to the 1967 border? Israel was under constant attack from 1948 to 1967 before they occupied the West Bank and Gaza."

Seriously? No, I don't. I think most of the Palestinians want ALL their occupied land back. But the International Community has recognized the 1967 borders, so anything beyond that is more controversial. But then again, many Israelis want ALL of the occupied territories (or even all of Palestine) to be a part of Israel (without the Palestinians, of course) so it's not like the Israelis recognize the 1967 borders and the Palestinians don't.

And it's funny how things change. Prior to 1948 Palestine was a territory that had been subject to disputes and colonial hegemony for aeons and was looking forward to the self-rule promised by the Britons as they were leaving. Instead they got  an invasion by a bunch of mostly European illegal immigrants who claimed Palestine as their ancestral homeland. Thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by an army of foreigners. Frightened and terrorised.

From the Palestinian perspective, the Israeli settlers were the terrorists. And the Europeans supported them out of their collective guilt for the Holocaust or their self-interest in seeing the problem leaving their shores.  

There are differing perspectives on the beginnings of this conflict, but they are mostly irrelevant, because right now you have two peoples claiming the same land. Neither wants to leave and neither wants the other to continue to live there. Changing THAT attitude into one of begrudging tolerance and co-existence is what matters. The historical context is, however, useful for pointing out that it's not as easy as saying that the Israelis are the good guys and the Palestinians the Bad guys.  

If I heard a black man, preacher or not, saying the things that preacher said, I'd think, "Fair enough".

That made my eyes bug out.  Hate speech is not acceptable.  Ever.  Period.

Wow.

That definitely puts a new spin on the way I read every one of your posts.

Yes, in fact, you should follow your own advice and go find a new chuch, then.

That being said, when valid complaints are couched in reactionary rhetoric it only serves to make things worse.  The higher road as a route takes longer to get there, but I believe it will get us there more safely  and more securly in the end.

I agree 100% Don. 100%.

Yes, and that's the road Obama is taking, despite what his preacher, and the media have said. 

Yes, in fact, you should follow your own advice and go find a new chuch, then.

It's a bit frightening that you call yourself a historian when you attribute something I didn't say to me in your response to me.  I hope you research your political choices a bit more carefully than you pay attention to whom you are replying.

Touche!  It was some other histronic person with no grasp of real race relations who said that.  You still aren't impressing me with your hissy-fit, though.

Keep trying!