I want to say that as an outside observer I tend to only see Americans and Jews defend Israel in this situation.
But either way you cut it, putting all the Jews there and making Israel was a mistake. Surely everyone sees that just by the fact that it caused so many wars and yes many many people were displaced and evicted.
I don't know what truth there is to ethnic cleansing but I do know that the Israels from time to time due commit war crimes against people in the Gaza Strip. I even know of Israelis who get in lawn chairs and watch the bombings like it's some social gathering. It's kind of sick in my opinion.
It seems that the only real solution is to give what natives are left some state of their own. Maybe even Israel give up places like the Gaza Strip and other locations that are highly contested. Surely it can't be worth the bloodbath.
I don't really care about arguments about might making right here. I don't believe that can be justification here and while Israel may not be totally evil I don't like that everyone is always giving them free passes for the human right violations they *do* commit.
In my mind, the only other solution might be to give the Palestinians some kind of real representation within the Israeli government. But I don't know enough of the situation to really know how that might pan out. I don't consider myself terribly educated on the entire situation but it's been very apparent to me over the years that the Palestinians have been greatly wronged in many ways and that Americans and Israelis always excuse this or try to minimize the impact because of their own religious and political bias and don't want to find some kind of solution.
Unfortunately this is expounded by those on the Palestinian side who have become violent over the decades of this stuff and those on the American/Israeli side use that as justification for dismissing the harm done to them.
But either way you cut it, putting all the Jews there and making Israel was a mistake. Surely everyone sees that just by the fact that it caused so many wars and yes many many people were displaced and evicted.
I don't know what truth there is to ethnic cleansing but I do know that the Israels from time to time due commit war crimes against people in the Gaza Strip. I even know of Israelis who get in lawn chairs and watch the bombings like it's some social gathering. It's kind of sick in my opinion.
It seems that the only real solution is to give what natives are left some state of their own. Maybe even Israel give up places like the Gaza Strip and other locations that are highly contested. Surely it can't be worth the bloodbath.
I don't really care about arguments about might making right here. I don't believe that can be justification here and while Israel may not be totally evil I don't like that everyone is always giving them free passes for the human right violations they *do* commit.
In my mind, the only other solution might be to give the Palestinians some kind of real representation within the Israeli government. But I don't know enough of the situation to really know how that might pan out. I don't consider myself terribly educated on the entire situation but it's been very apparent to me over the years that the Palestinians have been greatly wronged in many ways and that Americans and Israelis always excuse this or try to minimize the impact because of their own religious and political bias and don't want to find some kind of solution.
Unfortunately this is expounded by those on the Palestinian side who have become violent over the decades of this stuff and those on the American/Israeli side use that as justification for dismissing the harm done to them.
