RyanH said:
so is killing thousands of Palestinian people.
First, the Palestinians being killed are
mostly those fighting back. I don't care if you're only throwing stones, you do so in a fucking war zone, you can expect to get shot. Your Solution: don't fucking throw stones.
I don't deny that the Israelis have killed innocent Palestinians, same as the USA has killed innocent Serbs and Afghanis, and in WWII we killed innocent Japanese and Germans. It's always wrong. However, you can't always help it, that is, allowing terrorism to continue is an even worse wrong.
Second, Israel is a democracy, and the Israeli people do not want war (just look at their willingness to deal - seriously, go read up on Israeli history). The killing of Palestinians is always in
retaliation for suicide bombings. The Israelis are therefore less culpable.
As I see it, the creation of the state of Israel is on the same moral ground as the creation of the USA - i.e. it was created by the criminal act of stealing lands from natives. However, it's
DONE. You can't kick 5 million Jews out of Israel any more than you can kick 280 million non-Native-Americans out of the USA. Both sides need to learn to work together. That
starts with stopping the fucking terrorism. News flash, RyanH, Palestinians don't get killed when there's not an intifada, i.e. they don't get killed when they don't DO anything.
Feel free to pick apart specific points without considering the totality of my post. I know it's what you'll do anyway.