Israeli terrorism, directed against the British, was precise, and hit mostly military targets. It won-over the Jewish people, and defeated all opponents. It was followed by Israeli ethnic-cleansing in 1948, when partition was announced by the U.N., to clear Arabs from Jewish land. Triumphant, Israeli violence aside, when the PLO launched its own terrorist campaign in the West, during the 1970s, Israel began to reap what had sown.
So much garbage.
Jews were defending themselves from endless riots and attacks from 1920 on, when JEWS and not Arabs were being systematically cleansed out of
ALL of Gaza - 1920, A
LL of TransJordan - 1925,
All of Hebron - 1929, and then in
1948 from
ALL of Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem (pay attention to the word Jewish, not Armenian, German or the fourth Quarter. No one from the other three Quarters of Jerusalem were attacked and then expelled )
AND from ALL of Judea and Samaria.
The UN partition was NOT about clearing Arabs from Jewish Land. You do not seem to be aware, or care that a huge number of Arabs stayed in Independent Israel, because the Jewish leaders did not attack them and demand expulsion, but actually asked to stay, be it in Jaffa, Haifa, or anywhere else.
The Palestinian Arabs who were expelled during the war started by the Arab League were the ones attacking Jews and wanting them dead.
What country would not expel those who wish their population to be dead and their country destroyed?
There are Millions of Arabs living in Israel because they did not raise arms agains the Jews but chose to be a part of the new country.
Go tell your conspiracy theories somewhere where no one will catch up with all the lies you seem to enjoy telling.
I'm sure much of what you've said here is correct, and I want to believe you. I'm not an expert. I'm merely paraphrasing the analysis of author, Charles Townshend, in his book, Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction.
No, you are most definitely Not An Expert.
You are focused on one author and book, and one author and book Only to attempt to make your position.
There is no such thing as "One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter". Some moron came up with that, or it wasn't what someone meant.
In the case of the Jews and their homeland, the Jews have ALWAYS been the freedom fighters against the Greeks, Romans, Byzantine, Muslims, Crusaders, the Turks and the British.
Why? Because it is their ancient homeland, where they came from, defended many times and continued to live on for at least the past 4000 years.
To call any other group in that land as Freedom fighters is an illusion.
Why? Because any and all of those groups were invaders to the land the Jews made theirs (because that is where they came from), just as the British and other European countries were invaders to the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, etc, or the way some Kurdish tribe first invaded the Land of Israel, or later on some Arab tribes did as well, and later on the Turks. Not only many parts of Asia, but all of North Africa and Europe.
So, are all of these invaders of the last 2000 years also freedom fighters? Against the indigenous people of the region they invaded to begin with?
How can that be?
There are clear definitions as to who is a freedom fighter and who is an invader or even a terrorist and the reasons why those words and definitions exist.
You seem to like to blur the whole thing and make the Arab Palestinians the Freedom Fighters, and the Jewish Palestinians the invaders and terrorists.
The same goes for the British, where you do not know, or care,
what their role was in the Mandate for Palestine, and how they willingly failed miserably towards that goal.
Or why the Mandate for Palestine was the only one the British did not care at all to live up to the word they had given in order to accomplish re-creating the Jewish sovereignty over the Ancient Jewish Homeland.
You wish to believe that the Arabs and the British were the victims of Jews who had no rights to the land? Is that it?
So be it.
Believe what you wish, because regardless of any and all you will continue to believe.... the Jewish people (and many non Jews) do know the truth of what happened in the past century, and they very much know Who is Who in the whole story.
You have nothing better than that sentence you have repeated on other posts before? Which we have dismantled before as well?