The important thing is...

One can hear people with strange political agendas in Skypeland sometimes. A Muslim was asking about the UN and the decision by the US to go to Iraq. I started to explain, and the Muslim claimed that the United Nations is not fair since the United States has not thrown Israel off of Palestinian lands (???). He refused to talk about Iraq and wanted to talk about the Palestinians.

The Muslim was then asked why he said that the land of Israel was all stolen Palestinian land. He said he knew it from history. He was asked who was the first King of Jerusalem and other questions. He did not know who Solomon was, or King David, or the Arab historian Josephus who wrote an extensive history of the Jews about 2000 years ago, or who the Babylonians were. He thought the first king of Jerusalem was Suleyman (who ruled from 1520-1566 AD). He did not know UN Resolution 181 and its terms. As we asked him question after question, he revealed that he knew nothing at all. At being confronted with this, he wanted to talk about something else, saying, "Go away from the subject." A bit uncomfortable for him to be shown to be an ignoramus, I guess.

He decided he did not want to talk about the Palestinians and accused us of lying, so he brought up the situation with the American indigenous peoples. I explained the story as I understood it, describing the European exploitation of the natives in the Americas, and the migration of peoples all over the world for millenia. Then the Muslim and some others started to complain about the Palestinians again, stating that "This is a North American problem". Huh?

He then made the claim that Abraham is not the father of the Jews. It even states this in the Koran, so we were astounded...Wow.