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In reply to the discussion: Hamas leader says 'we have the Israelis right where we want them' in leaked messages, WSJ reports [View all]AloeVera
(4,264 posts)And the Palestinians had nothing to do with it. But they are paying the price. As Ben-Gurion said:
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Maybe think about that and the last 75 years. What have the Palestinians ever gotten but be robbed out of a country promised to them by the British, then the UN, and then to live as miserable refugees denied right of return, under occupation in ever-diminishing lands where they are killed, imprisoned and tortured by a nation now intent on killing, expelling or subjugating them?