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Thread #121678   Message #2663049
Posted By: CarolC
23-Jun-09 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
Subject: RE: BS: Operation Cast Lead Explained
I'm afraid I have to disagree with the premise that the Palestinians are have not been willing to compromise or that they are motivated by hatred of Jews or resentment over past treatment. For one thing, the Palestinians (or at least the person claiming to represent the Palestinians) has already signed away their rights to something like seventy percent of their land. That's a hell of a big compromise, and between the two groups, it's the only compromise that's been made so far.

Would it be appropriate for us to characterize the struggles that Blacks in the US South engaged in during the civil rights era as being driven by their hatred of Whites, and by their resentment of past treatment? Or would it be more appropriate to characterize them as being driven by the natural impulse that all human beings have to want freedom and equality? Would it be appropriate for us to characterize the struggles that Blacks in South Africa engaged in under apartheid as being driven by their hatred of Whites, and by their resentment of past treatment? Or would it be more appropriate to characterize them as being driven by the natural impulse that all human beings have to want freedom and equality?

Their struggles were driven by the natural impulse that all human beings have to want freedom and equality, of course. The same is true of the Palestinians. They are not engaging in their struggle against apartheid and the suppression of their rights by the government of Israel because of hatred of Jews or because of their resentment for past ill treatment. They are engaging in perfectly normal and natural behavior for people whose freedom, equal rights, and self determination is being denied them by groups that are motivated by supremacism and the desire to maintain privilege at the expense of other groups. And not only is it perfectly normal for them to want to do this, it is also their right.