LYR wrote:The Israeli's are tough. If they didn't do what they needed to do, they wouldn't be able to survive.
By the way guys, don't take me 100% on this, but I've heard many people tell me that the New York Times is heavily biased against Israel. If I had the proof to back it up, I would, but I don't, sorry. (However, one instance comes to my mind when a friend mentioned in class that the New York Times published an article that showed Israeli soldier brutality for shooting at children throwing rocks (showing three pictures (not in order, which is important, but I can't remember the order), one being children throwing rocks, the other showing a badly beaten boy, and the other showing and Israeli soldier with a gun) and saying that the Israeli soldier was shooting at the children. In reality, the boy just happened to look more Islamic, even though he was an Israeli, and he was hurt from the children throwing rocks. The soldier actually helped the boy. When the New York Times was told of this, they published a tiny little article correcting this mistake in one of the nothing pages.)
If it were not for the fact that HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of Palestinien children have been injured and killed in precisely those circumstances, and that we only hear (in the regular media) about 1/100 of those incidents, but hear a large percentage of the cases where Israelis are injured ... you might have a case.
BUT, one thing MUST be clarified. Opposition to acts of Israel or even the establishement of the POLITICAL entity known as Israel does not in any way, shape or form mean one is "anit Jewish". The REAL truth is that the Balfore declaration upon which Israel's establishment was based, was not a vlid legal document by international standards. The SECOND historical reality is that Israel probably would not have existed if it were not for the collective guilt associated with the Holocaust ... and a desire for so many to see Jews "elsewhere" .. .i.e. antisemitism (rather ironic) was the biggest reason Israel today exists.
FURTHER, as per the "anti-US bias" put forward ... study history. If it were not for the US continually taking the Isreali side, Israel would not exist.
We, in the US get criticized (rightfully) for our depredation and discrimination of Native Americans. Yet anyone suggesting that Israel has acted in any way incorrectly in ceasing thousands and thousands of Arab homes, orchards and grazing lands .... is supposed to somehow be "anti JEWISH". THAT is one of the supreme ironies I will never understand.
Human Rights Watch, other independen organizations have cited example after example of Iraeli courts refusing to recognize ANY deed presented by Palestinians ... never mind that , in many cases, that same familiy lived there for over a thousand years. The Isrealis have continued to put up settlements in areas that were
supposed to be disputed. At the time Israel was established, the percentage of Jews within the territory considered Israel was just over 50% AFTER intense immigration. The percentage of arabs in the Palestinien areas over 90%. Teh Israelis have continued to allow immigration as a means of taking claim to land. By contrast, any Palestinien who leaves the territory ... for education or any reason is rarely allowed back in. My friend's brother was NOT allowed back legally for his father's burial. He had to sneak in. To renew a Visa, you have to physically return ... and that reentry, especially for young males, is routinely denied.
THOSE are NOT the acts of a faithful Jew or Jewish nation.
Irael is not going to disappear, any more than the US .. nor do I think they should. BUT,unless Irael starts acting in a more humane manner toward the Palestiniens, they WILL continue to be at war . .. and find that public opinion is no longer quite as supportive as it was.
