Jovian, that's absolute nonsense

Submitted by Esther (Israel), Apr 15, 2010 at 23:16

1. There is no Israeli "crusade" of any kind.

2. Israel's presence in the Middle East isn't based on biblical belief, but on the historical fact it is our ancestral homeland. The founders of Israel were mostly secular socialist Jews and our current government is made of mostly secular Jews.

3. There was no Palestinian People before the 20th century. Palestine was just a small, neglected part of a province of the huge Islamic Ottoman empire. The Arab Palestinian People is a recent invention, before that they were just Arabs, part of the Arab nation and not a nation unto themselves.

4. Jordan was founded on 3/4 of the Palestine mandate, so the 2 state solution is really a 3 state solution. Still the Jews accepted it and the Arabs rejected it.

5. The Palestinians were offered - twice, first by Barak in 2000 and again by Olmert in 2008 - 95-100% of the territory, including land swaps, a settlement in Jerusalem and reparations for the refugees (although there were also about a million Jewish refugees from Arabic speaking countries, most of them resettled in Israel) - and twice they rejected the proposals.

The Arab Palestinians, as well as the Saudis with their so-called peace initiative (look at the details) and most other Arabs, do not accept any settlement that includes accepting the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. No use in blaming Israel then. Start pressuring the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs. Only problem is how is the West going to pressure the Arabs when they hold it in the you-know-what with their oil? And with the Western financial interest in the huge 1.3 billion strong Muslim market? So the West keeps pressuring Israel because it's the only party that can be pressured.

And BTW, we're not your slaves and don't take orders from you. If you want to kill us, kill us then with your own hands, don't order us to kill ourselves.

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