Ralph Seliger of Meretz-USA writes to me:
Saif [Ammous] is an ignoramus. And so are you if you think that his is a serious analogy of Christians coming to the US to make it a more Christian country. It is already "Christian" in its majority and its cultural ethos.
Saif [Ammous] is an ignoramus. And so are you if you think that his is a serious analogy of Christians coming to the US to make it a more Christian country. It is already "Christian" in its majority and its cultural ethos.
The Jews did not come to Palestine as conquerors but as refugees seeking a home. I know that the Arabs thought of them as a threat, but if their response had been peaceful rather than the pogroms of 1920, '21, '29, and the rebellion of '36-'39, and if they had not made the British close the doors of Palestine in 1939 -- just when the Jews were especially desperate for refuge -- maybe "my" ideological Zionist forebears (who were bi-nationalists) might have prevailed in the Yishuv to forge a better, common future for both peoples.
"The Jews did not come to Palestine as conquerors but as refugees seeking a home. "
That they had to ethnically cleanse for themselves.
See – Deir Yassin and other outrages.
I am morally judged not for my intentions but for my actions. All world judges Israel not for its intentions but for its actions (USA excluded). Benevolent intentions ring hollow if you are robbed and humiliated by brutal occupier.
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For Arab outrages long before Deir Yassin, read about Arab massacres of Jews in Jerusalem and Jaffa 1920-1921, massacre of NON-ZIONIST Jews in Safed and Hevron in 1929, Arab massacres of Jews 1936-1939. Seems like the Arabs cornered the market on atrocities during that period. But of course, you have to distort and rewrite history for the Palestinians. That is why they are losing.
The jews absolutely came to conquer. You should no better, Phil Weiss.
Israeli archives reveal quite clearly that to be the case….
"But of course, you have to distort and rewrite history for the Palestinians. That is why they are losing."
LOL. You may be 'winning' in Palestine, but it is jews who are losing big-time.
Jews have been rewriting the history of the conflict since it began which is well documented and one of the reasons why jews are losing the moral argument – which will eventually lose them all of Palestine too if it doesn't change…
corr. "you should KNOW better.."