Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again"

[Galraedia]

226. Israel's problem with the Palestinians has been going on long before Hamas even existed

...and is also partially to blame for creating the environment that allowed a group like Hamas to exist in the first place.

Jews were forcibly removed from their homes during the diasporas (dispersion) by the Roman empire starting around 586 B.C. Modern Israel had been part of Palestine for centuries. At the turn of the 19th century, a movement called Zionism started that called for the Jews to return to their homeland. Before Israel's creation, Palestine willingly accepted some 700,000 Jewish refugees escaping World War I and the Holocaust. After WWII the UN decided to partition Palestine and give 55% of it to Israel so the Jews could create their own nation. Palestine did not vote for the creation of Israel. Instead Israel's creation was imposed on Palestine by the United Nations. Now imagine that tomorrow the United Nations decided half of your country would go to another nation of people -- while you have no say in the matter. But even after that Israel expanded its territory into Palestinian territory. The majority of the Palestinians fled or were kicked off of their land and were forced to become refugees in other middle eastern countries. Now imagine being forced off the land you were born on because a group of immigrants felt they were entitled to it for religious reasons.

This will never end with just Hamas. And Netanyahu insisting on a public declaration of Israel as a Jewish-state from the Palestinians proves it.