But here too is food for thought - when the hostile Arabs were conducting terrorist activities - so too were Jewish groups like Irgun, Lehigh, Sterns. Once they gained a state, there was no more need for it. They had what they had been striving for. That rather changes things doesn't it?
Its quite subtle, but this is justification for committing terrorism. Its supporting the idea that terrorism is somehow NECESSARY for the achievement of political goals and no longer necessary once those political goals have been achieved. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It's not justification - what I'm pointing out is how the emphasis is always on the Arab violence, yet there was considerable Jewish gang activity as well. The thing that changes is that once you have a state, then you no longer need gangs and thugs to accomplish your goals - you have a state military, and the power of a state and what you do is legal. It's easy then, isn't it - to control the narrative and paint your own terrorists as heros and the other side's terrorists as terrorists? Aren't they all? Yet they acted the same - targeting and murdering civilians. It's so important for one side to paint itself as peaceful but it wasn't. Not at all. At least the Palestinians aren't pretending to be anything but what they are.
I'm feeling extremely cynical right now, so I'm going to ask this - has ANY state been won without any terrorism? That's not a justification - it's me wondering it it is ever possible to attain something peacefully? Mahatma Ghandi is one of my heros, but India's independence was hardly peaceful.
I'm not sure how much you know about Ghandi, but he was an asshole. Everyone who worked with him universally reported this. The man was a nightmare to work with.
His entire peacenik approach was staged.
He'd jump up and down and yell and scream at his staff. There's even reliable reports of him striking staff members.
You really might pick a different hero
Ghandi ranks right up there with MLK
Oh and neither were settlers ;--)
I would put him in the same league as Hitler, Mandella and arafat