Dr McCosker, Mr Jackson’s posts indicate a pattern of regarding facts as an inconvenience, with myth, fiction and fabrication greatly to be preferred.

WRONG. Jews (Hebrews), the few Aramaic Christians (with Armenians and others thrown in, from all over), and the Arab (and Arabised) Muslims are NOT ‘the same people” in any meaningful sense of the word. And as for ‘the same one God’, that is a nonsense. Jews and Christians, yes, pretty much; Muslims, NO. Read Mark Durie, “Which God?” – he shows, very clearly, what any number of others, down the years (not least, the great Jewish philosopher and theologian, Moses ben Maimon) have also understood – that the ‘god’ of Islam is not merely *different* from the Biblical God, Ha-Shem, but… *antithetical*, fundamentally opposed, indeed, hostile. Everything that YHWH is, Allah is not.

“For 1500 years after the Romans left they all lived together without any serious problem with the Ottoman Empire running the show quite well for hundreds of years before WW1.”

Read James Parkes and get a clue. Islam was not in *existence* until the 6th century AD; between AD 135 and the 7th century Muslim Arab invasion and occupation the land of Israel was essentially ruled by Rome and then by Rome’s successor, Christian Byzantium. Jews were a subjugated minority in Byzantium, but still fared better under Byzantine rule than they *or* the Christians *or* the Samaritans did when they were forced into the near-slave status of Dhimmis under the Muslim boot. For what it is to be a Dhimmi, read 1/ Bat Yeor, “The Dhimmi” and “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam” and 2/ Mark Durie, “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”. To be a dhimmi is to be Abused, systematically, continually, and cruelly, in every imaginable way: spiritually, psychologically, economically, often sexually, and to be in perpetual fear for your life. THAT is what Jews, and Christians, and Samaritans, endured, under Muslim rule, whether Arab, Seljuk Turk, Mamluk, or Ottoman Turk. Humiliated, degraded, exploited, and in constant physical peril, at the mercy of the capricious Muslim mob and the capricious Muslim despot and the rabid ‘preacher’ in the mosque who at any minute might unloose the mob upon you. Like living at the bottom of a predator pit. Buying your life… sort of.. by paying exorbitant ‘protection’ money aka jizya. No sane human being, once they fully understand what the dhimma system did to its victims, would *ever* dare to praise it.

One option is to have partition like in India and Pakistan. without the blood shed, to distinct whole areas instead of a patch work of enclaves.

Another option is call the whole area a new name as one country with all resident equal citizen in all respects. This will see similar numbers of each major group represented in the parliament. Other educated nations are able to have a multicultural population.

After all the Jews, Muslims and Christians who make most of the population are basically the same people with the same one God so what is all the fuss about.

For 1500 years after the Romans left they all lived together without any serious problem with the Ottoman Empire running the show quite well for hundreds of years before WW1.

Australian parliamentary delegation from the Commonwealth and the various State Parliaments visit Israel annually and these visits are reported in J Wire and the AJN. Delegations also wrote a report of their visits too.

The Country Party in Australia was renames the National Party a few decades ago.

Now that this Country Party clique has signed on to the Arafat agenda, who gives a tinker’s curse about their “admiration” for Israel’s achievements: they are in league with the international ideology that aims to destroy those achievements.

Remember the internationally funded aerodrome in Gaza was bombed by Israel soon after it was built decades ago.

As far back as WW2 Gaza had an aerodrome that was used by 2nd AIF.