Originally Posted by ScottGem
First, Even though you didn't direct your comments at any specific individual you responded to a note from ETWolverine praising what excon and I had said.
Sorry, but your points don't disprove or even contradict what I said. Are you trying to say that the rest of the world was totally unaware of Hitler's final solution? Are you saying that when the concentration camps and other elements of the Holocaust were finally revealed, that the world was not aghast, at least publiclally, over it? I stand by my statement that a major part of the reasons that countries voted for partition was due to guilt over the Holocaust. The British interment camps, not concentration camps, were not pretty. The British took a black eye over their treatment of refugee jews and deservedly so. And yes it played a factor in partition, but again by making countries feel guilty. Whether the Arabs gouged the Zionists or not, the fact remains that they obtained much of the land they settled in legally.
Why is it nonsensical that Israel's enemies are enemies due to religious hatred?
Finally, you have to be kidding, a terrorist is a terrorist no matter what side they fight on. Yes, the Irgun were fighting for jewish freedom and a jewish state. But they did it by bombing both military and civilian targets. That's terrorism!
What I find odd is that we seem to be on the same side here. We both support Israel and their right to exist as a jewish state. I just don't do it blindly to Israel's faults or the lessons of history.
