None of which means I think the Palestinians deserve most of how they've been treated.
I think that ... given the level of violent anti-Semitism displayed by the Palestinian Arabs since the 1920's and 1930's (well before the foundation of the State of Israel), and maintained by them even when the Israelis have tried to compromise, and even when the Palestinians signed formal peace agreements ... the State of Israel has been remarkably tolerant, lenient, and humane in its treatment of the Palestinians. Almost any other State in the world, subjected to such murderous and inhumane violence by a people so much weaker, would have responded with annihilation, or at least explusion.
It is my hope that Israel's patience will eventually run out ... I'm sick and tired of seeing the Palestinians getting infinite chances. For one thing, Israel's humaneness has paradoxically (because it keeps Israel available to the Palestinians for attack and results in retaliatory strikes by Israel) given the world the notion that the Israelis are inhumane, and thus damaged Israel's global image.
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:45 pm (UTC)I think that ... given the level of violent anti-Semitism displayed by the Palestinian Arabs since the 1920's and 1930's (well before the foundation of the State of Israel), and maintained by them even when the Israelis have tried to compromise, and even when the Palestinians signed formal peace agreements ... the State of Israel has been remarkably tolerant, lenient, and humane in its treatment of the Palestinians. Almost any other State in the world, subjected to such murderous and inhumane violence by a people so much weaker, would have responded with annihilation, or at least explusion.
It is my hope that Israel's patience will eventually run out ... I'm sick and tired of seeing the Palestinians getting infinite chances. For one thing, Israel's humaneness has paradoxically (because it keeps Israel available to the Palestinians for attack and results in retaliatory strikes by Israel) given the world the notion that the Israelis are inhumane, and thus damaged Israel's global image.