Tim,
> Because the Arab countries rejected the propose division of the land and
> went to war to wipe out Israel. As usual they lost, leaving "Palestine" as
> the West Bank/Gaza rump, which at the time nobody believed was a viable
> basis for a state (this may be correct). This lasted 19 years until the
> Arab nations tried again and lost again.
Try replacing the phrase "wipe out Israel"
with "defend their homes, land and people".
It captures the motivation a lot better.
Israel was imposed upon the Palestinians.
Why must Palestinians "make up" for the
wrongs of Europeans by laying down and
accepting an ethnic cleansing from the
land that they too hold sacred?
What would you do?
How would you feel?
What if it were Jews refusing to be "cleansed"
from an area for a crime they didn't commit?
Would you use the same language?
-Jon
