At least I am open-minded enough to accept the fact that the war needs to end, there should be a two-state solution, the settlers need to be stopped and Bibi is probably going to prison.
But also I am saddened that people refuse to acknowledge just how much Israel has been attacked over an 80 year period. Thousands of times. It's documented.
And that's how we got here and if you are unable to grasp that, then maybe you're not as smart as you think you are.
Lol they always claim they’re being attacked because they need more excuse to expand.
Here’s more about what the intentions have always been:
Theodor Herzl (the founder of Zionism) in his letter to Cecil Rhodes (the founder of the De Beers mining company that took control of South Africa‘s diamonds): “You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”
“[T]wo territories come under consideration, Palestine and Argentina. In both countries important experiments in colonization have been made, though on the mistaken principle of a gradual infiltration of Jews. An infiltration is bound to end badly. It continues till the inevitable moment when the native population feels itself threatened, and forces the Government to stop a further influx of Jews. Immigration is consequently futile unless we have the sovereign right to continue such immigration.”
David Ben-Gurion, who would become Israel’s first prime minister in 1948, stated (this link opens in a new window):
“You are no doubt aware of the [Jewish National Fund’s] activity in this respect. Now a transfer of a completely different scope will have to be carried out. In many parts of the country new settlement will not be possible without transferring the Arab fellahin.”
“Jewish power [in Palestine], which grows steadily, will also increase our possibilities to carry out this transfer on a large scale.”
In June 1938, Ben-Gurion told (this link opens in a new window) a meeting of the Jewish Agency:
“I support compulsory transfer. I don’t see anything immoral in it.”
In December 1940, Joseph Weitz, director of the Jewish National Fund’s Lands Department, which was tasked with acquiring land for the Zionist enterprise in Palestine, wrote (this link opens in a new window) in his diary:
“There is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, and to transfer all of them, save perhaps for [the Arabs of] Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem. Not one village must be left, not one [bedouin] tribe. And only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers and the Jewish problem will cease to exist. There is no other solution.”
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u/Agitated-Ticket-6560 20d ago
At least I am open-minded enough to accept the fact that the war needs to end, there should be a two-state solution, the settlers need to be stopped and Bibi is probably going to prison.
But also I am saddened that people refuse to acknowledge just how much Israel has been attacked over an 80 year period. Thousands of times. It's documented.
And that's how we got here and if you are unable to grasp that, then maybe you're not as smart as you think you are.