I didn't say anything about self-determination, freedom and popular sovereignty, one way or another.
I said that I support Israel in her 66-year-long asymmetrical warfare against the Palestinians.
Oh, and it's not 66 years of ethnic cleansing in Palestine...
So the expulsion of over 700,000 Arabs from their homes, businesses, and bank accounts in 1948 doesn't meet your standard of ethnic cleansing?
Would you feel the same way if Jews have been the victims in Palestine instead of those having the "fun"?
"More than 700,000 Palestinians either fled their homes or were thrown out in 1947.
"Most thought they were fleeing only temporarily, until hostilities calmed down, or until neighboring countries and the rest of the world came to their aid.
"None of that came to be.
"The resistance Palestinian and Arab armies could mount against Jewish forces was disorganized, tribal, and entirely ineffective.
"Jews could and did systematically uproot a majority of Palestinians from land previously set aside for Arabs in the United Nations' partition plan."
What Is al-Naqba or al-Nakba - The Catastrophe
Could be...
Could be...
It's what happens when you pee your pants and run away, or listen to the empty promises of neighbors, and let next-door-neighbor Achmed do your fighting for you.
As it is, hundreds of thousands of Jews were, indeed, expelled from Muslim-controlled nations in the region, during the 1948-1975 time frame...
Loyal Jewish citizens of those countries whose only crime was to share a religious viewpoint with combatants in a distant war, beyond their borders, and beyond their control.
So don't come crying to The West over such things.
Muslims have been persecuting Jews for centuries and keeping a boot on their neck in the form of Dhimmitude...
Much as they've done to the practitioners of other religions over the centuries...
No sympathy here, or across much of The West, when you get right down to it, and Westerners find themselves obliged to choose between Muslims and Jews.
The Muslim-Arabs of Rump Palestine have lost their bid to control the region or even to remain stably upon the tiny parcels of disconnected land that they still control.
It's time for them to come to grips with Reality and to choose another path in life, and another place to live that life.
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And, now that we've successfully and temporarily derailed the thread...
How does the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict intersect with ISIS in Libya?