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Thread #106771   Message #2259147
Posted By: CarolC
11-Feb-08 - 01:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
The entire history of Israel, including the events leading up to Israel's declaration of itself as a country, has been fictionalized by the leaders of that country. You have bought the fiction hook, line, and sinker, Teribus. You have also swallowed their hatred of and contempt for Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular. It doesn't surprise me, however, that someone with a 'might-makes-right' supremacist philosophy like yours would feel a kinship with those within the Israeli leadership who are your philosophical cousins.

However, the facts are that Israel committed numerous acts of terrorism during the period leading up to the time of their declaring independence, killing many civilians and also British government officials in the process. For this, they were rewarded with a country. When Palestinians commit acts of terrorism, their homes, women, children, civil infrastructure... all get bombed to smithereens,and they are denied a country because 'we can't reward terrorism'.

This is the account from one of the soldiers who participated in the occupation of the Palestinian village of Duelma in 1948...

Killed between 80 to 100 Arabs, women and children. To kill the children they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one house without corpses. The men and women of the villages were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite the houses. One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a house he was about to blow up. . . . Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman with her newborn baby was made to clean the place for a couple of days, and then they shot her and the baby. Educated and well-mannered commanders who were considered "good guys". . . became base murderers, and this not in the storm of battle, but as a method of expulsion and extermination. The fewer the Arabs who remain, the better. (quoted in Davar, 9 June 1979)

This was not an isolated incident. For this, Israel was rewarded with a state, but Palestinians are denied a state because they, in their effort to win their freedom, have killed civilians.

Israel also has committed numerous acts of terrorism since the beginning of the state of Israel. In some well documented cases, they then pinned the blame for these acts of terrorism on the peoples against whom they committed these acts, for the purpose of creating a 'justification' for committing further acts of aggression against them, and also to poison world opinion against them. In none of these cases, did any of the guilty parties suffer any consequences, or even any public censure, with the exception of one. In the case known as the Lavon Affair, Egypt executed some of the people who committed the terrorist acts, and Israel used even this as a pretext for bombing Egypt, killing many civilians and military personnel in the process.

Jewish paramilitaries (prior to statehood), and members of the Israeli government and military committed numerous massacres of civilians during the period leading up to statehood, and then also after it, both within Israel, as well as within the boundaries of the neighboring countries. Israel never suffered any consequences for any of these acts, even though they certainly violated international law. However, when Israel's neighbors sought to protect themselves from further acts of aggression by acquiring military hardware, Israel used this as an excuse to commit further acts of aggression against these countries, and take more of their land.

Israel has always employed a strategy of doing everything possible to provoke a violent response from its neighbors, including such massacres of civilians, committing the first airplane hijacking in the history of aviation, and actively encroaching into areas that were not within the boundaries of what was allotted to it in the partition plan. It has suffered no consequences for any of these things, but when the people against whom Israel committed these offenses would respond, Israel would use this response as a pretext for 'reprisal' actions, and at the same time, use them as a way to poison the attitude of people in other parts of the world against the victims of their acts of aggression.

All of these things are perfectly well documented by members of the Israeli government and military, as well as sources like the UN representatives at the scene, other on the ground eye witnesses from other countries, and also from declassified Israeli government documents.

What all of this shows, is that racism towards the various brown-skinned peoples of the world is a far more powerful force amongst people of European ancestry than is anti-Semitism.