Reply #107: I'm mostly going by a bunch of stuff that I've read. [View All]

[Jackie97]

The way that I understand and have read it, Arabs in the area had been violent towards the Jews in the area for a long time, even before Israel's war in the forties. Then, you have the war in the 60's, where all those countries tried to destroy Israel (although we now know that there was good reasons for their wanting to start such a war, not that I agree with it). I've just read so many accounts of Arabs being violent towards Israelis/Jews that I haven't really been aware of any real peaceful resistance. I am going to read up more on the first infidata to find out more about how that went, but up until now, I've mostly only read about violent resistance.

I want to make it clear that I'm not condemning anybody still. It's just that until now, I wasn't really aware that there was any way of analyzing whether or not peaceful resistance against the Israelis worked.