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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I never really thought about the non-equal swap cheapening the lives of one side. Must contemplate and process this more.
The whole of Israel issue strikes me kind of odd. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Israel become a state after WWII and weren't most of the first residents shipped in from Europe? At the time wasn't the land already occupied by the Palestinians? I have mixed feeling about the situation. I mean the Holocaust was beyond awful. I can't even begin to find words to describe the horror of it. But that's something the Germans did not the Palestinians. Why did the Palestinians have to give up their homes to make Israel. Would have made more sense to me to give them part of Germany. I mean why not give them Texas or any other US state?
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I don’t think you are wrong. IMO you have summed up where every debate leads to on one side with the other reusing to accept it. The facts are there: read the UN Assembly addresses, the British census, maps of the towns that were there, and if possible go there in person. I think it comes down to a person's perception. If you look at actions and what is being taught in Israeli schools (or not taught in this case) it seems like a politically correct, slow cultural genocide. Something I have never been happy about the taxes I pay contributing to.
Whether its manifest destiny or the Old Testament giving an infinite ownership- Why can’t they just say it’s because they have better weapons- that makes them right. Of course could any reasonable person expect any less reaction.