From Israel with Love

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"From Israel, with love" Racism isn't something you're born with, it's taught. #FreePalestine #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/ZO7ZZChiHF

— Sara Khadra (@sskhadra) July 14, 2014

Comments

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Missing context: 1967-1993 when it was ALL white because Israel won the 1967 war.

For that matter: what about 1948-1967 when it was actually Jordan and Egypt because instead of giving the Palestinians a state at the end of the first war, the Palestinians' Arab brothers held them stateless for propaganda purposes? Here's a fact: The Palestinians have NO friends within 1000 miles of their homes.

Israel is being incredibly shitty. They ought to have begun the process of building the Palestinians an infrastructure after the 1973 war and turned it over to them after the Egyptian peace treaty. Israel has refused to recognize that they face no existential threats today. Hamas and Hezbollah can threaten security but not existence.

But Israel turns to Likud in times when security it threatened and Likud makes coalitions with settler maniacs. Then they radicalize more militants who threaten safety and send Israelis back to a Likud government.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I’d be interested in your opinion on a couple of matters.

First, when Israel first got their state, do you think there was a significant voice for turning the whole area white - that dream of Greater Israel? After all, it could be argued that Israel was only fortunate in having foolish enemies, who played into their hands.

Second, in the first war, when Israel first got their state, it seems to me that there are two narratives. The first one being that the Arab states rose to strangle Israel at its birth, and that the Palestinians in the area fled the Israelis. The second is that Israel took the opportunity to enlarge their territory right away, chasing off many of the Palestinians in the area. I suppose both could be true, which sounds like it might be a familiar story - Israel is attacked and Israel is able to take advantage of the situation. I’m assuming that it’s fair to say that Israel was clearly the one attacked in that very first war, or is there creditable doubt about that?