Reply #43: This is what I'm talking about. [View All]

[aranthus]

According to you, the Palestinians are 100% victims, with no culpability for their situation at all. You claim that the Palestinians are fighting to survive, but there is no evidence that the Jews were going to attack them in the first place. I can't even get you to admit what the whole world knows; that the Palestinian Arabs attacked first in 1947. What occupation were the Arabs fighting when they rioted after the passage of the Partition Resolution? What Israeli tyranny existed in January, 1948, when the Palestinian guerrilla army began to attack Jewish settlements? Even if you think that the Palestinians were justified in fighting, at least admit that they started the fighting. That would at least give your position some credibility.

How can you claim that the war is not one over Israel's existence, when the PLO Charter, the Hamas Charter, and countless Palestinian and Arab leaders have declared over and over for decades that that is exactly what it is? Get serious.