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So does Israel: Israel celebrates Irgun hotel bombers - Telegraph
A bit hypocritical to get all upset about it.
Not even close. The bombing of the King David Hotel was a strike against the British colonial government in Palestine and was a part of an ongoing campaign to drive the British out after Britain's 1939 announcement that it would not allow the establishment of Jewish homeland in Palestine, reneging on its own 1917 pledge to help the Jews to establish a homeland there and in violation of its obligations under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. This decision by the British was in response to the Arab uprising of the late 1930's. While some civilians died in the attack, it was the colonial government that was targeted in a reasonable expectation that this strike would materially advance the cause of Jewish nationalism.
By contrast, Dalal Mughrabi did not target the Israeli government, military or civilian, but random Jews she and her gang happened to come across, and there could not have been a reasonable expectation that these 37 random killings could have advanced the cause of Arab nationalism. The people she killed were not killed because of what they had done but because of who they were: Jews. Calling these killings acts of terrorism ascribes to them a sense of purpose no reasonable person could expect them to achieve: they were hate crimes, nothing more.
To try to justify, or even to explain them, by saying Mughrabi killed 37 random Jews because of feelings of anger or pain over the perceived injustices to Arabs is the moral equivalent of trying to justify or explain acts of violence against random gays because of fears gays may be seducing or molesting children or acts of violence against random African Americans because of a belief they are raping white women. All of these are hate crimes and none of them were committed in a reasonable expectation of advancing a cause. The moral and political equivalent of dedicating a square in Ramallah to Mughrabi on the anniversary of her killing of 37 random Jews would not be the bombing of the King David Hotel but if the Israeli government named a square in Jerusalem after Baruch Goldstein and dedicated it on the anniversary of his massacre of 29 Arabs at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
This action by the Abbas government amounts to an official and public embrace of hate crimes against Jews and makes the notion that the Palestinians are prepared to live in peace next to Israel bizarre and the idea that there can be a peaceful single state solution even more bizarre. If this action stands, it will be impossible to take the Abbas government seriously when it talks about peace, and the fact that the Obama administration chose to ignore Israeli requests to urge Abbas to cancel this incitement to hatred of and violence against Jews makes it equally impossible to take the Obama administration seriously when it talks about peace.
I'm not "justifying" any of it. Irgun was a terrorist organization little different from the Palestinians who feel they are driving out an occupyer. Right or wrong - the only real difference is that the victor gets to label who is a terrorist and who is a "freedom fighter". The victor writes (or rights) history and to hell with the 91 (mostly hotel staff and civilians) were murdered in the King David Hotel by the bombing and the many innocents killed by Irgun's market place bombs, bus explosions etc etc.
Celebrating or commemerating the King David Hotel bombing is commomerating the actions of a terrorist organization because you approve of their cause. The Palestinians, acting in a similar manner for a similar cause - do not have that approval.
There is no logic to it. Only emotion.
Irgun existed three-quarters of a century ago and consisted of a couple hundred members who were condemned by the Zionist leadership.
Hundreds of millions of Islamic terrorists and terrorist sympathizers exist TODAY whose actions are condoned and advocated by the Quran.
Now, even YOU know, birdbrain.
Irgun existed three-quarters of a century ago and consisted of a couple hundred members who were condemned by the Zionist leadership.
Hundreds of millions of Islamic terrorists and terrorist sympathizers exist TODAY whose actions are condoned and advocated by the Quran.
Now, even YOU know, birdbrain.
Hi hon, we've missed you. Did you remember to wash your hands?
Now, you might want to take a moment and actually read the thread...then maybe you can explain why your buddy Mike applauds Irgun's actions?
Irgun existed three-quarters of a century ago and consisted of a couple hundred members who were condemned by the Zionist leadership.
Hundreds of millions of Islamic terrorists and terrorist sympathizers exist TODAY whose actions are condoned and advocated by the Quran.
Now, even YOU know, birdbrain.
Hi hon, we've missed you. Did you remember to wash your hands?
Now, you might want to take a moment and actually read the thread...then maybe you can explain why your buddy Mike applauds Irgun's actions?
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
Hi hon, we've missed you. Did you remember to wash your hands?
Now, you might want to take a moment and actually read the thread...then maybe you can explain why your buddy Mike applauds Irgun's actions?
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
make up your mind, putz.
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
make up your mind, putz.
you'll have to forgive marc for not understanding the premise. He's slow.
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
make up your mind, putz.
you'll have to forgive marc for not understanding the premise. He's slow.
make up your mind, putz.
you'll have to forgive marc for not understanding the premise. He's slow.
does mary j. blige know this?
Read posts for free, chat room boy.
are you this stupid in real life, pool boi?
Whose reading posts for free, chat room flunkie?
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
Whose reading posts for free, chat room flunkie?
um... YOU are, you dumb son of a bitch.
oh MAN this is fucking hilarious!
Go back to sleep, stoner.
Hi hon, we've missed you. Did you remember to wash your hands?
Now, you might want to take a moment and actually read the thread...then maybe you can explain why your buddy Mike applauds Irgun's actions?
Irgun's actions were completely justifiable, sweet cheeks, given the British armies' decision to undermine the creation of the Jewish National Home they were obligated to help establish under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate over which they were trustees. The British forces were, in effect, armed enemies of the Jews whose presence in the King David Hotel made the hotel a legitimate military target under the law of armed conflict.
Your history and legal lesson for the day, pinhead.
make up your mind, putz.
