Reply #2: This is laughable.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

"Zionist Jews were not interlopers in Palestine."

This is not true - look at the figures for the number of Jews in Palestine in 1930 and 1955.

"The creation of the Jewish state was not an "original sin" foisted upon the Arab world."

This is not true - the Palestinians had been governed by various groups in the past, but they'd never til then been displaced.

"The tragic flight of the Palestinian refugees was overwhelmingly not the fault of the Zionists."

This is wickedly, offensively not true - the Zionists murdered many Palestinians, forced many others out by force of arms, and the remainder fled because they were afraid, quite reasonably, that they would be treated the same. Nakba denial is utterly contemptible.

"To the contrary, at every momentous junction the Zionists opted for compromise and peace, the Arabs for intransigence and belligerency."

This is just laughable - what kind of compromise is "we will take some of your homeland from you by force of arms, and let you keep some of the rest"? And the establishment of Israel is as clear an example of not opting for peace as one could wish for.

This article is garbage from beginning to end.