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Thread #164146 Message #3924990
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-May-18 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy 70th Birthday to the Jewish State
Subject: RE: BS: Happy 70th Birthday to the Jewish State
For the Israelis, this would mean letting the demonstrators overrun the border and kill all the Jews (the stated purpose)
That is totally at odds with what has been repeatedly stated by organisers, and many ordinary protesters. They are asserting their moral right to return to the country from which they have been exiled all their lives, and share it with all those who live there.
More to the point, in weeks of protest, as hundreds have been killed and thousands injured, I haven't seen a single case of an Israeli soldier being killed, or even injured by the action no of a protester.
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It strikes me that Israelis should recognise that, when Palestinians describe the events of 1948, in which they were exiled, as "The Naqba", "The Disaster", they should see that term as applying to themselves as well. The circumstances in which the State of Israel was established was hardly less of a disaster for the Israelis, and indeed for Jews in general, than it was for Palestinians.