The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88315   Message #1657435
Posted By: CarolC
29-Jan-06 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestinian Negotiation
Subject: RE: BS: Palestinian Negotiation
Israel, is under threat today, the threat comes not from whatever justices or injustices that were done in the past but from another mandate ... as I posted before, this mandate is genocidal in nature.

This is factually incorrect on many levels.

Firstly, it is precisely because of injustices committed by Israel that it is so hated by people like Hamas. The Jews living in the Middle East prior to the colonization by Europeans did not have any adversaries of the like of Hamas. All of the ill will directed towards Israel is one hundred percent the result of the way the European Jews treated the indigenous people of the region, as well as Israel's expansionist policies in that region.

And Don T's point is valid. The people who are calling for the end of the state of Israel are not calling for the elimination of any people. They are calling for the elimination of a political entity calling itself the "state of Israel" (ie: the governmental entity), not the nation of people who live within that state. I don't happen to agree with their feelings in this regard, but that is what they are advocating.

They are NOT advocating genocide. And anyone who is trying to make us believe otherwise is doing so specifically to get us to sympathise with their agenda of ethnic cleansing and politicide of the Palestinian people, as well as a genocidal policy towards Arabs and Muslims generally.