Israel Is A Terrorist State: Turkey PM

[ellisonz]

97. I simply noted that you were coming close to territory...

...as you yourself noted below, that could be read as advocating the destruction of the State of Israel:

To be clear, I'm not advocating the destruction of the Israeli State. That is their home now. Its too late for any of that kind of horrible nonsense and that kind of horrible nonsense has happened to the Jewish People far too many times. We're going to all have to find a way through this by means of compromise and hopefully peace in time.

Lets argue to your point for a moment. First of all, its a straw-man argument. The state was created and sanctioned by Churchill, Truman and the UN. If the UN really worked as well as they had intended it to, people in the arab world wouldn't have gotten so fired up about it. In truth, and I think we all know this, the 1948 war was a convenient excuse for the dictatorships of the region to try to grab some land. In truth, I'll wager, even if the Palestinians had kept their land, the Egyptians or the Syrians might have made a bid for it. IN TRUTH, Truman had in mind an American client state in the mid-east to counteract the Soviet overtures to Egypt, Jordan and Syria in an effort to stem a possible future Soviet grab of the oil fields. I never said anything about the Israeli government. Did I? You assumed it. I don't blame Israel for squat. I blame the gd UN and that mutton-headed Truman for not having the foresight to see this coming. I blame the British for being so blatantly obtuse when it came to colonial affairs that they managed to also botch (along with the French) the de-colonialization of Africa and India/Pakistan, which has caused tribal and now intercontinental warfare in many countries (not just Israel and Palestine) for the past 60 years.

Many historians would argue that what happened in the UN was not terribly influential in the outcome of the war of 1948 where the IDF and its forerunners did not receive any substantial international assistance. Israel did not need permission from Churchill, Truman and the UN to become a state, Israel became a state as a result of a military outcome i.e. the defeat of the Arab Armies. Mind you the British left and the UN partition never became a reality because it was superseded by the military conflict, which Israel won decisively against substantial odds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements