Do we know for a fact that the firing upon Palestinian(s) in this grove that you mention, was motivated by hate? If that is the case, feel free to serve-up a credible citation in support of that claim.
But I will concede that hate has been a factor over there for the past 65 years.
Beginning with the hate that the Palestinians, Lebanese-Arabs, Syrians, Iraqis, Saudis, Egyptians and Yemenese manifested against the Jews in attacking them in 1948.
They're still paying for their hatred and murderous genocidal intent and foolishness of 65 years ago, aren't they?
I think it's easy to call it hate when in reality some of these things are much more complex then that. I suspect the actions had more to do with nationalism, the breaking up of regions and the forced creation of new nations. If you are looking at bad behavior - Israel was no innocent in the activities there.
I have no illusions that Israel is a wide-eyed innocent, Coyote, and that includes the period of 3-4 years prior to and during and after the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.
But, at the risk of indulging in automatic gainsay, I, in turn, perceive that, although it might be '
easy to call it hate', that it is also 'entirely
accurate and
truthful to call it hate'.
Mind you, there are several 'layers' to that hatred:
...nation-birthing and land-juggling by the UN
...the shockingly new and unwelcome phenomenon of having powerful Dhimmis for neighbors
...some Arabs pushed off their land (
in addition to the large numbers who simply abandoned it in hopes of an Arab-promised Victorious Return in 1948)
...religious and ethnic and racial differences
...a microscopic loss of territory for the Ummah or the Pan-Arab Nation that it blew all out of proportion
...ill will resulting from decades of occasional sniping or skirmishing between Arabs and Jews in Palestine prior to 1948
..and deep and visceral frustration because they could not dislodge the Jews from their towns and kibbutzes and because they got their collective (
several Arab countries) asses kicked good-and-proper in 1948 by the new pipsqueak nation when the Arabs invaded despite the UN and despite the amazingly long odds against the new and tiny little State.
Israel and the Arabs - the France-vs-Germany of our times - with the roles interchangeable at various points along the timeline... and one of them much tinier than the other...
Complete with a sense of Revanche on the Arab side.
I'm no expert nor even particularly well-read on the subject but I have a servicable (
and admittedly highly biased) layman's understanding of conditions leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the spectrum of factors contributing to the Arab angst directed against Israel.
I stand by my labeling of Arab motivation as 'hatred' - it's a legitimate accusation, to my way of thinking.
One need look no further than the Arab propaganda of the period or the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to find copious evidence that such hatred was not only alive and well but also held a position of primacy in the minds of the Arabs of the period - and forming the basis or foundation for the hybrid motivations and propaganda that we see in our own times.
Or so it seems to this casual observer...
