Ad hominem attacks on my sources are not arguments. I see that once again, the poster attacking my sources has not actually offered any counter arguments to any of the arguments made by the sources I've linked to, they've only attacked the whole idea that my sources could possibly be credible. First of all, we have no reason to accept this person's opinion about the credibility of my sources, and secondly, the lack of any counter arguments is proof that this person is just making stuff up as they go along. If they actually had any legitimate counter arguments, they would have presented them by now.

Israel is not defending itself. None of the wars Israel has participated in has been a defensive war except the 1973 war. In every other war, Israel has been on the offensive. In most of the wars Israel has participated in, it has sought to increase the size of its territory. It currently is waging an illegal (under international law) occupation of land that does not belong to it (under international law). Israel has called for and helped to accomplish the destabilization and fragmentation of other countries in the region (and it is continuing to do so) in order to ensure that it would be the only major power in the region. I would say that anyone who tries to argue that Israel is not trying to aggrandize an empire is the one whose interpretation is severely skewed.