COMMENT POSTED TO ANOTHER COMMENT IN THE INDEPENDENCE
Reader comment:
"It has done
nothing but kill people for 65 years, having invaded every neighbor that it
has, many of them two or three times."
Israel was attacked in
48, 67 and 73 by armies (variously) from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and
Iraq. Israel risked being annihilated in all these wars.
Read some history -
don't parrot what you've read on far-left hate sites.”
Your comment is arrogant and uninformed. It simply repeats
the David and Goliath myths manufactured by the Israeli Ministry of Truth for
American consumption.
It is you who should read some history.
The 1967 War was engineered by Israel. Yes, some Arabs
attacked, but only after an elaborate series of aggressive and provocative acts
by Israel. It was what Israel wanted because its government had made an
elaborate calculation ahead and was sure it would win fairly quickly. The prize
was all of Palestine and part of Syria.
In the War, Israel also betrayed its best allies.
De Gaulle, a defender of young Israel, warned that he
wouldn't support conquest, but he was ignored.
The United States told Israel not to turn their armor north
after defeating Egypt, but that's just what Israel did because the entire intent
of that war was to conquer what Israel still occupies to this day. Just ask
yourself why else it still holds millions of people captive and has worked so
hard to make their lives miserable as an incentive for their leaving?
In order to turn the armor in the Sinai quickly, Israel had
to eliminate its Egyptian prisoners, and that is what it did. It shot hundreds
of POWs, much as WWII Germans sometimes did.
To cover this up from the United States and to cover up
turning armor north, it attacked the American surveillance ship, USS Liberty,
trying desperately for two hours to sink it with everything the pilots had.
This was not an error as Israel claimed later, the ship was not only well-marked,
Israel had been told of its presence, and the Israeli attack pilots who first
buzzed the ship waved to the waving crew.
As to 1948, well, please, it was Israel who was slaughtering
Palestinians, driving them out of their own land to seize their farms, homes,
and villages - all re-named afterward. There were several documented mass
atrocities by people like the Stern Gang, Irgun, and other Jewish terror
organizations. Hundreds of civilians were shot and Palestinian women were
raped. The hope was that all Palestinians would simply run away as the rumors
spread. I should hope some Arab states responded with anger, but they made only
a half-hearted effort.
1973 was indeed an attack by Egypt against Israel, but it
happened in light of all I've written above and far more.
Israel has demonstrated not an ounce of ethics in its 65 years.
Duplicity and killing have been the chief features of Israeli policy over the entire
period. Let's not forget several invasions of Lebanon, killing tens of
thousands, creating a years-long occupation (against which Hezbollah was formed,
an army of genuine freedom-fighters, not terrorists), and using such horrible
weapons as large numbers of cluster bombs on civilians.
And then America invaded Iraq, largely on Israel's behalf,
killing a million. Now Israel and America have terrorists doing the same thing
in Syria.
It has been a completely destructive and destabilizing
history.
