As a Vietnam Veteran Against War (medals for five campaigns) ; a Quaker; and a 1st generation American . . .born to a German Father of Jewish extraction … I lost relatives in the Holocaust and feel strongly that Jewish people need-and-deserve a “safe place”. In fact, literally everyone needs a safe place, but absolutely NOBODY should be allowed to create such a sanctuary for themselves by force of arms and at the expense of people who lived more-or-less at peace and in the same area for over two-thousand years.

Man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man is nowhere more pronounced than by Jewish armed forces and settlers on the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza. Peace will never be achieved in Palestine and the Middle East through ethnic cleansing and force of arms.

Regardless of race, creed, color, etc, People Of Good Will manage to get along just fine, until politicians and preachers get involved and take over.

Marc Hill was NOT fired because of what he said; he was fired over what CNN’s advertisers and and Editorial Board said . . . probably at the behest of the Owners’ Board of Directors. This notion that Israel, is “our friend and ally” is a flagrant lie: nations do not have friends: they have interests . . . and their current interest is propagandizing the USA into believing Israel’s basic problem is still in the “simply survive” mode of early Zionism. Their aims today are to ethnically cleanse Israel (neo-apartheid!) and expand their tender mercies across as much land as they can possibly grab . . . at our expense. As “Exhibit A” I give you Iran, the last and greatest obstacle between the current status quo and Israel’s final implementation of their Greater Israel Plan (GIP) . If you, gentle reader, are not familiar w/GIP, Google it at this instant!. In short, it entails the Balkanization of the entire Arab-Iranian Middle East with Israel’s wresting control of all land (and natural resources) between the Nile Valley and the Euphrates River and south into Somalia and the Sudan.
They will do this, too. . . regardless of how many American lives and how much American treasure it costs.
Note: Our invading Iran will require the commitment of upwards toward 1,000,000 troops; a surge of our nation al debt into bankruptcy ranges; and twenty-or-more years of fighting . . . with absolutely no assurances of winning anything but grief and still more grief!
Exhibit B: Vietnam;
Exhibit C: Iraq
Exhibit C; Iraq.

For well in excess of one thousand years, Jews were subjects of persecution and pogroms all across Europe. They were abused and unwelcome.
The Holocaust was Hitler’s Final Solution to what he saw as Germany’s Jewish problem.
In turn the partitioning of Palestine was the rest of Europe’s Final Solution to their Jewish problem. “Ship ‘em all off to Palestine and forget about them! Let the Arabs sort it out. “ The rest is tragic history.
Surely the world’s Jews deserve a “safe place”, but did they need to destroy the Palestinian’s’ pre-existing “sage place” to achieve it? Was co-existence such an anethema?
IMHO: In 1948. the International Zionists who had been been supporting active Terrorism in Palestine for decades saw the involuntary partitioning by Imperialistic foreign powers as a license to increase their scope of anti-Palestinian terrorism and initiate ethnic cleansing throughout the land.
Granted, this is a simplification, but the tragic consequences have been the destruction of thePalestinian state and the resurgence of anti-sematism worldwide. Que lastima!

Zionists and blinded Israel supporters of all stripes and nationalities can drag out all of the Biblical facts and fairy tales that exist throughout the world, but none of them justifies the unfair, illegal and immoral apartheid that the Israelis are visiting upon the unwanted Arabs, Africans and even (to a somewhat lesser extent) members of Jewish sects not sanctioned by hard-core right wing “real” Jews.
Since the invasion of Palestine by Zionists began near the turn of the 20th Century, the primarily-Russian-refugee Zionists’ — many of whom had no historical or genetic connection with Biblical Israel or the Diaspora — proceeded by invoking their “God Given Right” to enter and co-opt the area, all others be damned. Their recorded conduct has (almost) always run counter to any notions of co-existance with the Arabs. The case has been made that the ensuing terrorism which spread between Arabs and Jews did not need to evolve as it did. Had the zionists arrived, hat in hand, seeking good will and cooperation. . , but they didn’t, so who knows? I

This is the most enlightened piece (re: Israel) that I have ever read. As the Holocaust was Hitler’s “final solution” to the Jewish Problem, so the partition of Palestine is “the rest of Europe’s” final solution. Ship’em out and forget them . . . But it ain’t that easy.

Ah so, Mooser. I beg to disagree. Not so much with your comment but, rather, with your choice of verb tenses: You say: “. . . compulsive vindictive (by) . . . radical right wing Jews, COULD LEAD to an increase in anti Semitism?”
“You’ve got it wrong, my friend. The anti-Semitism pendulum IS in motion and has-been accelerating for decades. And not just in the Middle East! The obscene plight of the Palestinians far exceeds anything written in Jimmy Carter’s book, “Peace Not Apartheid”– with no relief in sight and none anticipated under Netanyahu & Likud.

That which the world sees today is Israel’s intransigence regarding good-faith peace negotiations and their insistence upon ethnic cleansing of all of what used to be the (de facto) State of Palestine . . . And frankly, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, the world grows weary of this continuing physical, economic, and social abuse of Arabs by Israeli military, police and armed civilians, none of whom are ever held accountable. for any of their wanton actions. (Eg., USS Liberty)

Agreed, the world’s Jews — like the Kurds — need “a safe place” to live, but the Palestinians ALSO need a safe place to live. The Arabs had had a relatively safe and peaceful homeland for two mil1lennia… until the militant Zionists, Hitler and the Partition of Palestine came along.

So get over it! At some point, Israel MUST back down and negotiate.
That time is NOW!!!

Were it only so easy! Countless UN resolutions (for the settlement of various International Law violations, primarily by our staunch ally, Israel) have been proposed and passed in The Security Council by nearly-unanimous votes …. .only to be vetoed by the USA. The Israeli’s have a very efficient and active propaganda capability, and they have organized a network of dynamic, hardworking and efficient lobbying, fund raising and public relations groups here in the USA. And make no mistakes: these groups control the distribution of massive amounts of re-election funds that play a major roll in our domestic elections. (Eg., AIPAC), A Senator or House Member who votes counter to Israel’ wishes or “best interests” will find that not only does he NOT receive Israeli-centric cash re-election donations, he will have a well-financed “pro-Israel opponent” running against him/her in the primary.
So, while we are at it, let’s get a handle on what overseas money is affecting our elections. . . This, if you didn’t notice, is a call for Congress to ‘ scuttle the Supreme Court’s benighted Citizens United decision.
Don’t hold your breath!

The Jews in Europe were pariahs ever since their Diaspora-dictated-departure from the Middle East in the distant past.
Omitting volumes of historical facts & records and proceeding directly to today’s problems: I contend that if, as undeniably IS the case, The Holocaust was Hitler & the Nazis’ solution to Germany’s perennial “Jewish Problem”, then the creation of Israel and the partition of Palestine were the-rest-of-Europes solutions to their centuries-old “Jewish Problem”. Best stated, it went like this … from behind closed doors, of course: “Let’s all become Zionists; ship the Jews out of our country; and dump them on the Arabs,” Then let’s forget about them.”
Unfortunately for all concerned, it didn’t work out that way. The Palestinian themselves have always been somewhat of a Middle Eastern pariah, and if my history is correct, other Arabs want(ed) the Palestinians “out of sight and out of mind” as fervently a Europeans wanted the Jews out of Europe.
After WW II, both Jews and Palestinian Arabs rightfully needed a “safe place”, and both saw their haven as “The Holy Land” over which Zionist Jews and less-organized Palestinians were already fighting and killing each other. Fairly stated, that land — now Israel & occupied territories — been the Palestinian’s homeland for millennia.
It is a tragedy for which there can be no successful military solution; however, world leaders’ intransigent egos will lead us nowhere else.

You want “Israeli-Zionist logic”? I give you Israeli-Zionist logic:
Don’t you find it curious — “interesting ” — that on the one hand, the State of Israel can denounce the violent and unabashedly-vocal anti-Semitic alt-right christian (sic) rioters in Charlottesville while, on the other, they support and encourage — even pander to — latent-but-equally anti-semitic “christian (sic) zionists” and dispensationalists. This latter group’s well scripted “End Times” sequence of events entails — indeed, demands — the complete annihilation of all Judaism through either their conversion to Christianity or their slaughter.
Go figure.

I find it wholly hypocritical that “Israel” can criticize the openly anti Samatic alt-right christians (sic) while, at the exact same time Jews all over the world are supporting and encouraging the much more (theological) anti-semantic “christian (sic) zionists” whose very existence is predicated upon either the conversion or slaughter of all Jews during their well-scripted “end times”. Netanyahu and Likud literally suck-up to these despicably non-Christian sons-of-bitches . . . While simultaneously slaughtering, empoverishing and enslaving millions of illegally and immorally imprisoned Arabs whom they hold captive in the occupied territories. Go figure!