José;7966569 said:
"...You have to have at least a cursory knowledge on Israel's history in order to avoid saying the absurdities you said above..."
I do, indeed, have a modest working knowledge of Israel's history; it's merely that I side with them, and not with the Palestinians, as you do; consequently, I do not see such observations as 'absurdities'.
"...All Israeli historians are in perfect agreement that even before the end of the 1948 conflagration Israel had already decided to prevent the return of the displaced arab population..."
Irrelevant. You side with the attackers (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon), then you're out for good, with no hope of return.
"...The "border" between Israel and Gaza/West Bank was turned into a free shooting area. Israeli soldiers were authorized to shoot anyone trying to cross them into Israel..."
Absolutely. Entirely correct, from the Israeli perspective. Many countries behave in exactly the same fashion. Try to cross the border without permission, and you die. Nothing new there.
"...More than 3000 unarmed palestinians were murdered by Israel from 1948 to 1951 simply trying to return to their homes, harvest their crops or see their relatives..."
If, by that, you mean that 3000 border infiltrators (and wannabes) who tried - despite warnings to forbear - to sneak across the border, were killed, then, that sounds like a fairly efficient guarding of their new borders to me.
"...This happened at least 3 years before the beggining of the palestinian armed struggle, 3 years before the first fedayeen attack registered by israeli historians (May, 1951 if my memory serves me well), two decades before the creation of the PLO and three decades before the creation of Hamas with its rockets and suicide bombers..."
Doesn't matter if it happened in 1948 or 2013. If you cross a border-zone that is publicly declared to be a Death Strip for anyone caught trying to infiltrate, you are going to die.
Those killed should not have been so foolish as to try their luck against such efficient border controls.
"...From 48 to 51 you practically only had palestinians trying to return to their homes. I say 'practically' because the few incidents of armed attack during this time period (10%) were caused by Palestinians trying to avenge the deaths of relatives killed by Israel's policy of shooting Palestinians even on their "side" of the fence (when they approached it too much)..."
Again... it doesn't matter. Cross the border under such controlled circumstances and you die. And, if there have been repreated attempts via Point A or B or C, or repeated violence eminating from Point A or B or C... then you would do well to avoid such Points. Approach such volatile Points under such circumstances and you die. Solution: stay the phukk away from such Points.
"...This historical fact crushes the israeli propaganda that palestinians are kept herded in Gaza and the West Bank and shot dead when they 'tresspass' into Israel as a 'security measure'..."
Only if one settles for your interpretation of 'historical fact', which many (most) non-Muslims and many (most) non-Palestinian-sympathizers do not.
"...What you really have is a state racist to the core killing the unwanted ethnic group in order to maintain an artificial demographics in the western half of the region..."
Incorrect, and maudlin dramatics on your part here, unfortunately.
What you really have here is a walling-off of the Barbarians in the West Bank and Gaza, after trying to avoid that walling-off for the first few decades, and eventually settling upon that controversial solution, once Israeli civilian casualty rates reached sufficient levels due to suicide bombings so as to force the Israelis' hand to such entirely understandable measures.
"...You got the whole issue completely backwards, Kondor..."
One of us certainly does; although some elements of truth may lie in the middle.
"...Palestinians are not murdered when they try to leave Gaza and the West Bank because of the rockets and suicide bombers..."
Confidence is fairly high that thousands leave Gaza and the West Bank every year; seeking new opportunities and new lives, rather than continuing to live in their shit-hole refugee towns and camps for another 65 years.
It is true that Palestinians are fired-upon and killed when they attempt to infiltrate Israel. It is also true that Palestinians are fired-upon and killed when they attempt to infiltrate other countries; the Egyptians, for example, keep a tight lid on how many Palestinian Crazies that they allow to pass back and forth.
"...They launch rockets BECAUSE they have been murdered by Israel while trying to return to their places of origin since 1948..."
They launch rockets because they are too stupid to realize that they have lost those lands forevermore, and must now emmigrate to live amongst their ethnic brethren and co-religionists, in order to ever again have a chance at prosperity and happiness.
"...The palestinian armed struggle is the direct consequence of Israel's shoot to kill policy in place since 48 not the cause of this policy..."
The Palestinian armed struggle is the last dying gasp of a Failed State That Never Was.
"...You are free to defend Israel all you want, Kondor..."
Indeed.
"...What you are not free to do (or at least shouldn't be) is rape the history of the state of Israel."
I've done no such thing.
Merely served-up the Alternative Position; one which is at-odds with your own.