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Quote by: Sonart  . Dang, why are my ears burning like this...?
I compare it somewhat to the Balkans conflict. Serbs constantly insisted that the Croatians, Bosnians and Kosovars were all guilty of their own share of atrocities during the conflict. Which is indisputably true. But in the end one had to concede that the vast majority of atrocities were initiated and committed by the Serbs, and make an overall judgement accordingly.
So it is with Israel/Palestine. Yes, the Israeli's have behaved inexcusably in many instances. But with all the factors added and subtracted, the bottom line remains that Israel, over the last 60 years, has been defending their existence against constant aggression and that whatever misery the Palestinians are suffering, in the overall span of history, they brought it upon themselves. |
Extraordinary. With this logic the next step would that the Jews were responsible for the holocaust!!! Having done a reasonably summary of the Balkans and arrived at the conclusion that the Serbs were the aggressors, this same person comes to the conclusion that the victim, the Arabs are at fault. Now I see what Nono predicted earlier with...
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| But he just can't quite free himself of that tribal allegiance, and ends up being lopsidedly pro-Israel, meaning that he somehow always finds a way of justifying Israeli conduct, or at least throwing up his hands and blaming it all on the Arabs. |
Thankfully the majority of American Jew and quite a deal of non-settler Israelites do not hold his view. True that the world does view Americans now as fascist fundamentalist rednecks because of Bush but that would be to misjudge the true position.
Turncoats often feel that they have to try harder to prove themselves in their public utterances so they are never trusted by either side. Being on a Zionist forum probably means that he has to try harder to be accepted. Having no god allegiances allows me the luxury of thinking for myself.
Zionist Murder Rate of Arabs Below Target