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Originally Posted by lippyzippy
The worse part is how self defeating this Israeli government is....recall how when the united nations voted for Palestine to become a nation, by over 200 votes against 9...the next day the Israelis built masses of new homes on Palestine
disgusting
Im sick to death of it...its destabilising the entire region as well as destroying Palestine and the 2 state solution
it is also going against what many Israelis and jewish people like me want....the truth is many jewish people are liberals, it seems Israel project has been hijacked by the mega rich and greedy power brokers....its also giving moderate Israelis and perhaps even moderate liberal jewish people like me a bad name.
im sick of it and I hope Obama and Kerry, both of whom are good men at heart, can somehow make progress on this tragic bloodbath
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Oh yeah, the Americans, they're great peace-brokers, aren't they.
There are 22 Arab countries totalling around 800 times the size of Israel, but there is only one Jewish state. Aside from the Jews believing they have a divine right to be in Israel, the fact is that Israel was a state two thousand years before Islam was established and nowhere in the Qu'ran does it mention Jerusalem, Israel or whether Mohammed ever even visited there.
As for the UN, they are an expensive, toothless institution who had
nothing to say during the Jordanian occupation when 58 synagogues were destroyed, nor when they desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, nor when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing sacred sites and places of worship.
I'm not going to pretend that I think Israel always acts appropriately but when Israel is insulted and attacked by people who really don't know the whole story, just bits a pieces they've picked up, it's annoying. They try to paint Palestine as some kind of opressed, noble minority. In actual fact Israel is targeted by Palestinian rockets on a daily basis. If Israeli anti-missile technology wasn’t so good the news might read very differently. Even school teachers are armed in Israel, to protect the children they teach from terrorist attack. There's a lot of talking needs to be done so that both sides can live in peace, but unless people see the whole picture, that's never going to happen.