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In reply to the discussion: Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked [View all]PDJane
(10,103 posts)33. That's another part of the Myth of Israel...that plucky little nation against all those Arabs.
The nation of Palestine didn't become a country because Great Britain was planning to put the Jewish Problem there, assuming that the Palestinians would be treated as citizens. The only reason for the separation and the creation of Israel was terrorism and retailiation....and most of the terrorism was Jewish. They felt, and it seems correctly, that if they showed that Arab and Jews couldn't live together, the international community would give Palestine to the Jews, regardless of the Arab population.
The wars since have been simply to remove the Palestinians from more territory. I suspect that the next move will be to annex the West Bank in its entirety, and create a truly apartheid state.
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter....depending on who holds the power.
PDJane
Jul 2014
#27
"I guess you are saying" - clear indication of invented bullshit in the next sentence
Scootaloo
Jul 2014
#37
History has shown that when the persecuted take control of the state, they become...
Larkspur
Jul 2014
#30
Not innuendo -- it's what officials in the Israeli government are openly calling for.
stranger81
Jul 2014
#44
There can be no serious dispute that much of the Israeli propaganda in this campaign
stranger81
Jul 2014
#42
The moral rot in the progressive soul is the rot that allows so-called progressives
stranger81
Jul 2014
#41
as opposed to how many years that Palestine has had to wipe Israel off the map?
frylock
Jul 2014
#22
That's another part of the Myth of Israel...that plucky little nation against all those Arabs.
PDJane
Jul 2014
#33
If Israel was the kind of country that wanted to exterminate the population of Gaza
MrNJ
Jul 2014
#31