Why is it, in these times, that to be clearly understood one must state the moral obvious before they can say anything else? And still have to repeat it to be heard (I guess I'm impatient and don't like repeating myself--I'm working on that).
I have great empathy for the good Palestinian people, just as I do for the good Iranians and good Germans during WWII. Hamas isn't good or noble. It is a government of evil Palestinians. Are there evil people of every variety and stripe and tribe? There were Arabs that hid Jews during WWII even though the Muslim Allies fought with Hitler. Did Hitler, Stalin, or Moa have any redeeming qualities? Again, one must state the obvious?
Probably.
I'm betting that Charles Manson wasn't completely bad. But, who wants to defend the goodness of evil people and regimes?
Not me.
Jews, Arabs, and Christians all had some level of historical claim to the territory prior to Israel becoming a nation. On November 29, 1947 the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948 when the British mandate was scheduled to end. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. Why didn't a nation called Palestine declare statehood? Because there was no such thing as a Palestinian people or nation. Mixtures of Arab, Jewish, and Christian people inhabited the old Ottoman territory.
No good/civil person wants civilians injured in wartime or ever. Hamas is not civil. They're religious fanatics bent on the destruction of Israel and the use civilians as shields.
At this point in history, the land belongs to Israel by legal right. If you want to declare war on a nations and its Army that's one thing, but to kill innocent men, women, and children. No. And don't regale me with history atrocities. Bad or evil behavior has never been justification for more bad or evil behavior.
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