The trouble with the Palestinian supporters on Mudcat and elsewhere is that they will not face up to the history of Israel.
The Palestinians have spent decades slaughtering the Jews and attempting to expel them from their homes and land and indeed their country.
The state of Israel was founded on the land of the Israelites. The Jewish people had been terrorised,slaughtered and exiled for centuries.
In 1967 the Israelis were surrounded on all sides by their enemies who promised to destroy them. They fought back and only in this way did they survive.
Since then they have been attacked on all fronts and all age groups as male, female, soldier, tourist, schoolchild.This is daily fare for Israelis.At the heart of the matter is the refusal of the Arab countries to acknowledge the presence of Israel.
Now armed Palestinian paramilitary terrorists steal onto Israeli land, shoot guns and rockets into Israeli villages, kill and dismember their own people who are fingered as 'collaborators' and continue to attempt to defeat Israel via a campaign of terror.
The Palestinian response to a criticism of this on this thread is to demand the de-recognition of Israel within any borders whatsoever.They show no concern or understanding for the Israeli people ...the indiginous population of Israel...How could they? Zealous Muslim teachings and the surrounding Arab states, often using UN funds, have been used to indoctrinate young Palestinians into an uneducated rage against people they do not know nor are encouraged to understand, and give them a vain hope that they can move into a somehow depopulated land at some time in the future.
There will never be land nor peace for Palestinians while they wage war on the people of Israel by any means.