Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Abbas rejects Egyptian offer to settle refugees in Sinai [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)And I'll make it simple too, because I'm tired from being out all weekend having a life.
Your argument rests on a thin, floppy, thrice re-used douchnozzle of a premise: that Zionism is predicated upon the Ethnic Superiority of the Jewish People.
This means, in scoot's head, israel exists to perfect the master Hebrew race or some other dumb shit he's been working on.
(Is it called a manifesto? I'll bet it is!!! squee! God you guys are so awesome.)
Anyway, we just have this third reich ideology going on, and we got rid of the Arabs cuz we think we're better. It's a supremacism thing. And if we let them back, one might beat my uncle at whiffle ball, and we Jews just couldn't handle that.
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From my perspective.... There are two groups who've been fighting over the same, sad scrap of land for 100 years and everyone's really mad, and hot, and tired, but mostly just really mad. Still.
My thinking is that, regardless of all other options, we should probably not do the thing where we pour both groups into a small jar and see what happens. Because we already know what would happen, because we tried it before... Before the 100 year old conflict.
(It's actually what started that conflict, if you can believe that?!)
One more thing: the Jews aren't supremacists.. At least none of the hundreds I've met. Their worry about losing ethnic control of their state comes from a deep seated collective fear that the THING that always happens, when other folks determine our fates, that THAT thing would happen again.
But you seem confident that handing over controlling political power of our one nation state to the group who's regarded us as enemies for scores of years (and we them),
is the RIGHT thing to do for everyone, correct?