COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Israel shooting:
Palestinian kills three at Jewish settlement near occupied West Bank
All of the trouble and violence was started by Israel.
When you do what Israel has been doing in the West Bank and
in East Jerusalem, you can expect to make serious enemies.
How would the average person in Britain, or anywhere else,
act if a bunch of bullies threw you off your farm or out of your house and
simply stole it from you, setting up armed guards against your return? The men
shot were guards.
And Israel just keeps this kind of ferocious and immoral
activity up, using its American-supplied military muscle to abuse almost beyond
our imagination.
Israel arrogantly ignores all pleas to behave otherwise,
blubbering about democracy. Some democracy!
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Response to a comment
offering a dishonest brief account of Israel’s birth:
That is a dishonest summary of what happened in 1948.
It was complex, not simple, and the yet-to-be Israelis were
brutal then too, employing terror regularly with gangs of thugs like Irgun and
Stern and Lehi, killing and raping to make Palestinians run away in terror.
Several later-to-be prime ministers were terrorists who
killed many people. Begin and Shamir for example.
Israel was founded in terror, and it has never ceased to
maintain (early Zionist) Jabotinsky's Iron Wall rule towards the native people.
Those unbelievably-mistreated people of Gaza are only where
they are because they fled terror in 1948.
The early Jewish terrorists wanted them all to leave the
area completely, not caring what became of them, but large numbers huddled
together around Gaza for safety, and the Jewish terrorists were not ready for
mass killing on quite that scale.
The horrific publicity would have made American recognition
impossible.
But the Iron Wall just keeps slowly moving out, crushing
more unfortunates out of their property and lives.
