Please stop making unfounded accusations about what other people do or don't care about. You can't support your accusations, and all they do is inflame the discussion. Jews who were expelled from Arab countries have the right under UN Resolutions regarding the rights of refugees to return to their homes and properties, just as Palestinians who were forced out of what became Israel have the right to return home or be compensated. If you want to uphold the rights of Jewish refugees you have to do the same for non-Jewish ones, too.
I merely point out that many people on this board only give a crap when it's Jews that kill Arabs.
You
claim many people on this board only give a crap when it's Jews that kill Arabs, but you can't support that accusation. It's inflammatory slander, and a type of
Ad Hominem.
You don't make a fuss or shed a tear when it's reversed or when Arabs kill other Arabs. Now you can say I don't know what you really care about. But your passion on this issue belies your assertion. Me thinks thou protesteth to much. If it walks like a duck..... You do understand that since 1948 11,000,000 Muslims have been killed violently and 35,000 of those were killed fighting Israel. The majority were killed by other Muslims. You have no perspective. How many civilians were killed by Allied bombing of Germany? 20,000 in Dresden alone. How many people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How many innocent people were killed during Germany's attack on Russia. How many were killed when the war reversed and Russia was closing in on Berlin?
Do you understand that a person can deplore the death and human suffering these numbers represent, and also deplore the ongoing death and human suffering in the Middle East? Do you understand that an action can be evil regardless of who is doing it to whom, and that special pleading and double standards are fundamentally unjust?
Suppose for a moment it was Jews trapped inside Gaza, and that Menachim Begin and his Irgun fighters, Yitzhak Shamir and his Lehi cadre, Moshe Dayan and the Palmach Brigade, or Ariel Sharon and the Haganah were leading the fight against the Palestinians who had imprisoned them behind concrete walls and razor wire, kept them blockaded and on the brink of malnutrition, and isolated them from the rest of the world. Suppose it was the Zionists digging tunnels and firing rockets at Arab towns (and don't try to argue they wouldn't - a quick glance at what the Irgun, Lehi, Palmach, and Haganah actually did is enough to prove they would). Suppose the Palestinians were firing tank rounds and artillery shells, dropping white phosphorus, and blowing up hospitals and schools to devastate the Jewish Agency and kill as many Jewish fighters as possible. Do you actually think the arguments against collective punishment and killing kids would change? If you do, then I think you are missing a huge part of the message people are sending.
All war is a crime. The place for this to be solved is at the negotiating table. One side does not recognize the other. One side has a charter calling for the destruction of the other. Stop pinning this on the Israeli's. If the Palestinians want peace, they merely need to recognize Israel's right to exist and begin negotiations.
The Palestinians recognized Israel's right to exist back in the 1990s when the Palestinians and Israelis negotiated the Oslo Accords. A few years later they went even further and recognized Israel's right to exist in peace and security. It is high time the Israelis recognized the right of a Palestinian state to exist, and until it does, you should direct your criticism at them.
The idea that Arabs are light and Jews are darkness is BS.
I agree 100%. Also, the idea Jews are light and Arabs are darkness is BS. Neither one is special. They're just like every other group of people on the face of the Earth. Some of them are exceptionally nice, some of them are exceptionally nasty, and most of them are somewhere in-between.
Oh, and before I forget to mention it, the Palestinian Jews are most closely related to Palestinian Christians and Muslims (no surprise there considering the amount of intermarriage between them before the Zionist movement split the communities apart), so be careful about calling Palestinians brutes and savages. You're talking about Jews and their families, and it could easily be taken as anti-Semitism.
When the Arabs had Jerusalem they desecrated Jewish cemeteries. They forbade Jews from worshiping at the Western Wall. When the Jews conquered Jerusalem they gave control of the Dome of the Rock to the Muslims.
I don't see a point here, unless you are making some kind of racist argument about Jews being better than Arabs. Are you?
