Re: Comments about Jews by Arun Gandhi?
^^ what about arabs disregarding the Palestinians?
many people forget that Israel was founded on areas which had a jewish majority
even the jews who came from europe settled in places like tel aviv which was founded by jews from jerusalem who were kicked out by arabs in early 1900.
in 1947, tel aviv's population was more than 300,000. palestine on the whole had 500,000 jews at that time.
it was the arabs who invaded israel in 1948, which caused the innocent palestinian people to become refugees
and arabs attacked israel again 1967 which caused the remainder of palestine which was under arab control to be occupied
Israel needs to withdraw from the occupied lands, end the settlements, compensate the refugees and totally disengage from the affairs of the palestinians
But then again I understand the passion of people like Arun Gandhi.
Even though Israel was forced into this situation, most people side with the weak against the stronger opponent
There is no such country called Israel...There is however occupied Palestine...And the Arab nations knew the conflicts that would arise should an illegitimate squatter state be created upon an already existing, legitimate state...They tried to stop its creation, but the west had a vested interest in the region owning to oil and to keep the Muslim states there in check...So they created this bas tard nation in order to manipulate the politics of the region...
The forces which occupy Palestine have done nothing more than occupy a sovereign state, same as Saddam did when he invaded Kuwait...
However, strong support of the US in vetoing any resolution passed against the occupying forces have deterred efforts to oust these invaders from Palestine and free an occupied nation under siege...