Not all, just most.
> Ottoman Empire covers the entire region (Muslims)
And allowed many Jews to settle, especially those kicked out of Spain during
the inquisition.
> WWI. The Arabs help the English and the English establish a colony in
> Palestine. Jews and Arabs pretty much lived side by side, but the Jewish
> population was still fairly small.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem backed Hitler and supported a massacre of Jews
living in Hebron and other places.
> Looking for a home, Zionism starts full throttle. Jews begin moving to
> Palestine in larger numbers and push for Palestine to become a Jewish
State.
> Arabs and Jews start openly attacking each other. (The Jewish organization
> Irgun used tactics that were described in the media as terrorist bombings
> that sound very similar to what we hear about Hamas today.)
1. Buying up large tracks of owned land and building on uninhabbited land in
most cases.
2. Irgun never attacked women and children, only military targets and always
warned before (not after) a blast.
> The UN officially creates the State of Israel.
And the Arabs attacked the next minute.
> I'm sure I'll get called for bias in that description. I included
mentioning
> the Irgun as a balance to the obvious violence of the PLO that we know
> about. Whether you support the side of the Jews or the Arabs, the only
truth
> I think that can be stated is that fighting over the land has been bloody
> and tragic for both sides.
If Hamas was only attacking Israeli military outposts then I'd have no
problem lumping them in with the Irgun. But they don't. They go out of their
way to avoid the military outposts to get to civilian areas. That's
terrorism and of a lever far worse than the Irgun ever did.
Resistance = military attacks
Terrorism = civilian attacks
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