So you've gone from saying the Jews have NO CLAIM to saying the Palestinians have the SUPERIOR CLAIM? Then you're conceding that the Jews have a legitimate (if inferior) claim. Much wiser people than you have tried to untangle this knot. They ALL agree that BOTH sides have legitimate claims. The way to ensure “perpetual war” is to keep denying the claims of one side or the other.
The Middle East will never be stable, with or without Israel. Blaming our national debt on aid to Israel is like blaming your electric bill on a 4-watt nightlight. Without foreign aid, our debt might be only $19.4 billion instead of $19.5 billion – if you assume we wouldn't have been dragged into costly wars because we stupidly left Israel defenseless. Not only are you clueless about numbers, you also have no grasp of history. Every Arab-Israeli war but one was started by the Arabs. The only exception was the Six Day War in 1967, when Israel acted to pre-empt an imminent Arab attack. So much for “fomenting perpetual war”. And who are those mythical “elitists” who “don't lose their children” in such wars? Do you mean the Zionists who returned to Israel and built a prosperous country out of the desert? Their children serve on the front lines of the Israeli Defense Forces. In case you didn't know, serving in the military is compulsory for all Israelis.
Your shallow bumper-sticker “analysis” is always laughable. The more complex the issue, the more ignorant and simplistic you are.
Originally Posted by lustylad
I've never seen my views on a bumper sticker. You say that because you have no response other than to recite the government and MSM line on this issue. What's laughable is your pretense to intelligence when it is clear you have given no real thought to this issue.
Here are the facts in plain language.
The Palestinians lived in Palestine for 2000 years.
In the late 1940's, the United States, using the Holocaust as an excuse, assisted the Zionists in grabbing the land and forcibly removing families who had lived there for CENTURIES to move away from their homeland, so the US could give that land, which wasn't theirs, to people who had NOT LIVED THERE for centuries.
There was no legal or moral precedent for this action. It was outright theft.
Yes, the Jews were treated horribly by the Germans during the war. We should have given them part of Germany for a state. We had that land. We won the war. We could have done that. But instead, we throw millions of innocent people off their ancestral homeland, because some "God" 4000 years ago "gave" it to them? That's not legally binding anywhere! Besides, that same "God" kicked them off that land because they were assholes. They had NO CLAIM to that land. NONE, WHATSOEVER.
So why did they give them the land? I hold to my initial proposition: To create a state of perpetual war for the profit of Big Business, Big Banks, and Big Oil.
The government and MSM are lying to you, LardoLad. Wake up!