@ProfDBernstein Hitler also thought Poles and Russians were non-Aryan and committed genocide against them. (While these genocides were less extraordinary in scope than the Holocaust, they were genocides nevertheless.) Why do we have to follow Hitler's views on race? Ash Jews are european.
@burnerfor86011 @ProfDBernstein Israel was est. in 1948 by UN mandate, under same mechanisms as other countries carved out of the former Empires, from Kenya to Ukraine to Pakistan. That is why it is a legal State, as legitimate as every other. And like every other state, with a complete right of self defense.
@Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 @ProfDBernstein but then why did they expand past the borders? why did they kick out the people who lived there? a right to self defense cannot legally be used against an occupied territory.
You apparently are not aware that Israel accepted the partition plan of 1948 l, the Arab side did not , launched a war featuring five armies plus local irregulars, and lost. When the dust settled, the land that had been allocated for the Arab state that the Arab side declined was divided among Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. No one demanded that Egypt or Jordan create a Palestinian state from that land.
@k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 Also, the war didn’t result in borders bc the Arab side refused negotiations. There are only armistice lines, constantly breached by the Arab side until the 1967 war.
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 You of course ignore the fact that the ethnic cleansing of Arabs by Zionists began before Israel was established. 250000 were expelled before Israel was established.
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 Zionist Jews accepted the colonial "Partition plan", because it was a win-win for them. Palestinians rejected the "partition", given the inequality in the proposed population and land exchanged, including most of its best agricultural land, to recent illegal Jewish immigrants. 🙄
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 Revisionist history.
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 It’s true that the massacres happened from both sides. I read an unbiased account last night; hard to get this version on Twitter. Whatever the past, the only solution is peace. And end to occupation, and the wall must come down. These are mandatory conditions.
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 I recall that the Irgun and LEHI—the political ancestors of @netanyahu’s Likud party did not accept the partition plan. I heard those groups also committed some terrorism along the way…even Albert Einstein condemned these groups…haaretz.com/jewish/2014-12…
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 The not particularly gentle way Egypt dealt with Islamists in the West Bank and Gaza before those areas moved to Israeli control (FSVO) also seems to get ignored.
@ProfDBernstein @k_thos @Ermengrabby @burnerfor86011 I love when I learn something. Always wars.