Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Abbas wants 'not a single Israeli' in future Palestinian state [View all]PDJane
(10,103 posts)What I am saying is not code. I mean it as nothing more than a statement.
Jews are not, in this case, innocents. I haven't supported Israel for decades, and am not likely to do so again. You can debate all you like, you can decide I don't know the meaning of words, you can tell me how wrong I am. That's fine.
Israel was built on terrorism and blood, and the myth of the Jewish Homeland. Religions don't have homelands. The fact of the holocaust doesn't excuse the building of a Jewish state in the middle east; that was just moving the 'Jewish problem' around. If Israel had not managed to promote the myth of the downtrodden little state fighting the Arab world, it wouldn't have gone this far. And it has been a myth. Israel has been well-armed from the beginning, and even the 1967 war was started by Israel, contrary to belief. Who says so? Among many others, the Dutch observers of that conflict. In fact, the Jewish deaths from war and terrorism have been inflated; reported 3 and four times in the Western media, and yes, that's documented too.
One more time. Israel is not an innocent, and she never has been. That's what happens when you decide that your only chance of long term survival means someone else's death.
Neither are the Palestinians innocents, but they have not caused Jews as much death and damage as has gone the other way.