1. Don't you remember when Palestinians fled from Kuwait during and after the Gulf War? Or them being driven from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein? Or how about al-Assad using the Syrian Civil War as an excuse to mistreat Palestinian refugees?
2. In that scenario, there wouldn't
be any Jews in Europe.
3. I'm not just claiming that, it's documented fact.
I've never seen someone so vehemently and unwaveringly defend the utterly indefensible before.
I'm not defending this, I'm just trying to bring in some perspective.
Why do I get the distinct impression that if things became openly genocidal you would still decry it as a 'monstrous exaggeration' since Israel could only kill at most 2.5 million to Hitlers 6 million, and besides, the Palestinians have the gall to actually fight so it would be self defense.
Hitler used racism/nationalism, the victimization of the German people under the treaty of Versailles, and the 'historically backed' manifest destiny of the Aryan race to subjugate and eventually try to eliminate the Jews.
Israel is using racism/nationalism, the victimization of the Jewish people under Hitler, and the 'historically backed' manifest destiny of God's chosen people to subjugate the Palestinians.
They're already at the point of denying them basic rights, jamming them into ghettos that lack proper servicing, walling them in, and collectively punishing them... which sounds a lot like Warsaw circa 1941. The only thing Israel hasn't done yet is start a wholesale extermination program.
The comparisons are more than valid. You just need to set aside you preconceived notions about who the good guys and bad guys are and look.
1. Plenty of other Middle Eastern nations mistreat the Palestinians. Why aren't you holding them to the same standards?
2. Funny, I don't remember the Jews ever committing terrorist attacks against Germany, calling for the destruction of the German state, or threatening to wipe out the German people.
3. Between 1948 and 2001, somewhere from 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jews left the various Arab and Islamic countries and moved to Israel, which is more than the number of Arabs who left Israel during that same time period. Why aren't you accusing them of "ethnic cleansing"?
This is your defense?
Other people are worse so we should excuse Israel its atrocities. That's not acceptable to you for your personal pet causes, nor should it be, so why does it fly now?
What's even worse is that they are not even very good points.
Jordan Syria and Lebanon, have the highest populations of Palestinians outside of Israel (in the region). Jordan renounced their claims to the West Bank and let the PLO take control of the area. Syria and Lebanon are home to displaced populations who would probably go home if they had a home to go to. As refugees, the Palestinians might not be treated well, but guess what, that wouldn't be an issue if they weren't refugees in foreign countries thanks to Israel to begin with.
The Jews in Warsaw were surrounded by a military force and lacked any potential civilian targets unless they wanted to kill their own non-Jewish countrymen living outside the wire who were also suffering under the German yoke so the fact that they never attacked any is largely moot.
Israel has a Right of Return law that automatically grants citizenship to Jews, a democratic political system favorable (biased) towards Jewish people, a very high standard of living, the safety of an unmatched military and powerful allies, a colonization policy to provide land to immigrants, and the Jewish people have a demonstrated history of forming enclaves and homogeneous communities. Only a million showed up in 53 years after how many major wars, civil wars, and uprisings in the region? Wow, what a damning number.
There is so much wrong in that statement, I don't know where to begin.
1. I'm not trying to excuse Israel, I'm merely attacking a double standard.
2. Your points suck too. Did Israel force them to discriminate against Palestinians?
3. You've got the cause and effect mixed up. The blockade of Gaza happened as a result of Hamas rocket attacks, not the other way around. I don't like the blockade either, but there's a
huge difference between it and the Warsaw Ghetto.
4. There's a lot of historical context you seem to be missing. The Right of Return is an attempt to prevent another Holocaust. The Jew-friendly government is the obvious result of a Israel being a Jewish country.
And Israel's military isn't so unmatched. After all, Hezbollah was able to go toe-to-toe with them. Besides, the primary reason Israel's military is so powerful is because it was surrounded by neighbors who loathed it. As for their "friends in high places"? There are a lot of complicated factors that go into it, such as the Cold War.
And why are you talking about their history of "enclaves and homogenous communities"? Just about every group has a history of doing that. And honestly, bringing it up makes you sound like an anti-Semite. After all, the whole "they won't assimilate" line has been an anti-Semitic canard for millennia. I'm not saying you are one, it's just something to keep in mind.
Your "only one million" comment ignores the fact that the Jews have never had a very large population. There are more Arab Christians than there are Jews. To put it another way, the Jewish population in the Arab Middle East and North Africa has decreased from 900,000 in 1948 to less than 8,000 in 2001.
I will, however, concede your point about colonization. The Palestinians deserve a homeland of their own and Israel needs to stop its settlements in the West Bank.