ima, irosie91, loinboy, P F Tinmore,
et al,
I cannot defend all things Israel. I'm not that competent, nor am I that knowledgeable about certain accusations and events.
What little I do know, leads me to believe that much of the self righteous attitude and cosmetic victimization shields the truth and is an obstruction to the realization of peace.
Palestine is the Palestinian's country no matter how much the propagandists say that it is not. They hold the legal and moral high ground and they have never surrendered their rights to anyone.
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Let's address this first. No one said that the Palestinian "surrendered their rights to anyone." What was said was that the Palestinian never made the effort to establish a Palestinian "State" and then, when they made a superficial (shoddy work) attempt, it was well too late. What was said, is they that the same time to accomplish something as the Israelis, they had placement and economic advantages over the Israelis, they had external support from every regional country - over the Israelis. Yet, the Israelis were able to accomplish so much more. The Palestinian, for all their cry and posing as victims were not able to establish a nation, or make nearly the same measure of contributions to their ethnic culture or the world, to anywhere near the levels demonstrated by deeds in Israel.
This is merely a rationalization necessary to continue the armed aggression initiated by the Palestinians and Arab Nations in 1948. It has no basis in fact. This follows some ridiculous logic that Palestine was a sovereignty unto itself during the Mandate; and that the Arab Palestinian had some extraordinary claim to establish a sovereignty.
You cannot speak to the moral high ground. The Palestinian, whether firing anti-tank rockets at a school bus full of children, stabbing to death a family while they sleep, ambushing civilian cars on the road, suicide bombings in crowded shopping centers and restaurants, indiscriminate rocket fire, or just entering a High School in Kfar Etzion and randomly stabbing students, --- these are not the tools or the methods of a people that hold the high moral ground.
All terrorist
(insurgents, freedom fighters, resistances movements, etc) share this common language they use to justify their actions. Even Osama bin Laden
(another famous Arab Freedom Fighter), in his "Open Letter to America" placed the Palestinian Cause as the number one issue for why he attacked America. That is one hell of a high moral endorsement and solidarity in common cause.
You cannot migrate into an area (as the zionists did) and automatically have more land rights than the people already living there. Arabs had been living there for a 1000 years and 750,000 of them were driven from their homes due to jewish terrorist groups like Irgun.
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This is a switch in the discussion from a sovereignty issue to a civil and/property ownership issue.
The Israeli did not "automatically have more land rights than the people already living there." And I would never justify the unlawful appropriation of the private ownership of land.
The Irgun is a tricky thing. I think of them as a terrorist group, so I know what you mean. Somewhere around here, I have a British Wanted Poster for Menachem Begin, the last Commander of the Irgun. Oddly enough, they to, thought of themselves as freedom fighters against British occupation during the Mandate. The rhetoric they used then, sounds eerily familiar to that being used by today's Palestinian Terrorist.
Do you think its right to move into a neighborhood, go up to one of the homes, walk in the door and tell the people in there to get out, this is your house now?
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I do not. Yet, somehow, I don't think the story is complete --- that, that is all there is to it. Nor have I a complete understanding of the circumstances.
But, no - I don't support or approve the confiscation of privately own property without extraordinary justification. But, again - is this justification for the continuation of a struggle for more than a half century?
Hitler did it, and the jews are just following in their saviour's footsteps.
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This does not lend your argument any credibility whatsoever. Such inflammatory and outrageous remarks only tend to deflect the questions at hand. Anyone who knows anything about the relationship between the Jewish People
(those that survived) and the NAZI, knows that this statement is a red herring, intended to invoke an emotional response.
Anyone can make such claims about anyone. The use of NAZI association is common to both sides, to the point that it is now a signal that nothing important is being said: [Example False Propaganda Or!)] Stakelbeck on Terror: Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/20...rror-The-Arab-Nazi-Alliance-in-the-Holocaust/
The book outlines the history of Islamic anti-Semitism in the Middle East, including the 1941 organized massacre of Iraqi Jews in Baghdad known as The Farhud, or "violent dispossession." Watch as Black breaks down the larger Arab Muslim role in the Nazi Holocaust, which included an active alliance between the leader of the Palestinians and Adolf Hitler, and how this history still affects the Middle East today.
Most Respectfully,
R