1948, Israel and the Palestinians: The True Story

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I think this discussion would benefit from clearly definiting the word 'semite'

my understanding is that it (more or less) means arab. The majority of peoples alive today who follow the jewish faith are of european (ashkenazi) descent, so it doesnt really make sense to use the term anti-semitic to label those who show predujice against them. It also makes little sense to talk about most palestianians as being anti-semitic, as they are semitic.

For clarification I said it's "as if" it's written into your DNA -- I don't believe in such a literal thing, of course.
That would be absurd. People hate because they're filled with it spiritually.

Yes, it's true, most Jewish Israelis are far-left lamenters of the hate the world has for them,
and have rationalized it under the extreme psychological pressure to do so,
concluding, "We must be guilty! Why else would they hate us so much??"
But there is another explanation.
When God chose the Jews, Satan chose them too. But for the exact opposite reason: as a people to pick on,
since that was the most direct way to mock God.
And of course, there are several God-mockers on WrongPlanet, even though God, like Israel, has done nothing
to deserve such base disrespect, slander, libel, and the inevitable curse words and general foul language insults
which are regularly thrown at both.

Having had no contact whatsoever with either God or Satan I cannot speak for either of them in any way and all documents indicating personal contact do not strike me as particularly rational. I fully accept your statement that God has done nothing since I have not seen any evidence otherwise and it would be somewhat psychotic for me to mock a non-entity. My problems are with people with rather odd viewpoints.
I have never encountered Jews who felt guilty about being Jewish. Most either celebrate it or ignore it. And even non-religious Jews enjoy celebrating the Jewish holidays much as non-believing Christians (if they can be so characterized since Christians do not assume a genetic relation to their religion) have a great time with Santa Claus and Easter Bunnies.

Incidentally, when a Jew hates an Arab for blasting his son to bits or an Arab hates a Jew for doing likewise to his family there is nothing spiritual about it. It is very visceral.

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Palestinians work peacefully alongside Israelis in all areas of society,
including the highest government positions.
The equal rights spelled out at modern Israel's creation have been upheld to this day.
But those who are found out to have packed bombs on their bodies when trying
to enter Israeli territories naturally and sanely lose some of their rights.

On that note, let's talk about suicide/homocide bombers. Go ahead, explain to me how innocent they are.
Explain why it's so terrible to live in a high-functioning democracy, that people must blow up themselves and
others in order to get relief from all the voting rights they have, etc...
You've spun Israel down (as best you could); now it's time to let the other shoe drop, and for you to tell us
how wonderful the homicide bombers are.

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It is most probable that as soon as the Palestinians are as well equipped with US military hardware as the Israelis their use of suicide bombers will decrease radically. Notice how quickly G.W.Bush became less aggressive to the North Koreans when they demonstrated nuclear capacity. As Rumsfeld noted, you fight with the army you've got.

Largely, yes. (And I love how you state it in the passive -- as if "they could no longer be sustained" had to do with
foul weather, and not the fact that Palestinian terrorists were trying to kill them.)

Now, answer the other part of my question to you: Why did Israel deliver 49,191.7 TONS of aid
to the Gazan Palestinians, in addition to medical supplies, vaccines, disinfectants, diapers, straw, and even surgeons where requested?

Funnily enough, I don't recall that kind of aid being delivered to the Nazi concentration camps you make referrence to.

What did you mean by "concentration camps", exactly?
And were the Jews in Europe blowing up, terrorizing, or in other ways killing civilians? Do tell.

I really don't know why you keep yourself in such ignorance when the facts are available.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7280026.stm

You're evading the question, which was about the morality of violent and murderous actions by Palestinians
against unsuspecting Israeli men, women, and children going about their daily business.

Please also explain why Palestinians are routinely observed dancing and ululating in their streets
whenever large numbers of Israeli men, women, and children are massacred.
You have made yourself an apologist for the Palestinians, so go ahead, defend the child-murderers among them.

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Please kindly give a link from a news organization that hasn't admitted 3 times in the
last 12 months to being biased against Israel in their coverage.

The BBC? Do you question their facts or the opinions of Amnesty International? Goodness! The Israeli Lobby really has you tied down.

Meh, my position about this is that yeah jews needed a place for themselves. Did they had to use brute force? No. Had my history class last session in cegep (college) and heh, they never respected anything the UN or the british told them to. I don't really care what Iran might do to them anymore ;P .

Hey! Take it easy. There are a lot of good people there on both sides. A nuclear war would make everybody extremely uncomfortable all over the world.

Problem with war : Can't ever kill who or what you need to get rid of.

that's what i said. your reading comprehension sucks.

he's their prime demographic. fundie christian american. how else do you think they get the big tourism dollars? christian pilgrimages to israel.

well, that and playing off the same midwesterner's racism.

they did? why?