Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)This isn't about whether Palestinian hatred is justified. Go back to your initial comment. You're insisting that Palestinian terrorism began as a reaction to Israelis stealing their land and that this response could be expected regardless of whether it was Jews or Arabs. The fact that you are using Israeli responses to this initial violence merely supports my point. Israeli only roads were a natural reaction to Palestinians constantly shooting at Israeli cars. Settlements are ultimately the moving of Jews BACK to areas that they previously inhabited and were ethnically cleansed from. Settler violence is a very recent phenomenon which hardly reflects the reasons for this conflict being initiated.
100 years ago, Jews began immigrating to Palestine and the reaction was to massacre and expel indigenous (and later foreign) Jews. Arabs immigrated and the response was to integrate them.
Your argument is predicated on the assumption that Arabs in Palestine bore a natural right to rule the land and control the influx of minorities lest they lose their demographic advantage. The idea that this rule is sacrosanct and must include the entirety of the Middle East (barring Iran) is referred to as a matter of fact. So much so that the decision to allow Jews the right to immigrate to a tiny sliver of the whole can be un-ironically referred to as "stealing Arab land."