Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

Incorrect. Several people have written here repeatedly that Israel should merge with the Palestinians and create one big happy nation, ending the entire Jewish state situation.

Otherwise, yes, it's FUBAR and I don't get the concentration on the supposed evil of one of the antagonists. Nor why Israel alone is enduring the BDS movement nor why the UN has been incredibly one sided.

Nor why people, some of them here, who joined an army that napalmed civilians and bombed neutral countries in undeclared wars, have concluded that they're entitled to some moral high ground about this conflict.

If you step back and look at it, this is the first time in history that an attacked nation is supposed to respond in a "proportional" manner and I would be curious if you can think of any other instance. Also, the idea there should be some sort of "right of return" for people who launched a war at another country and lost. It was an idea that Arafat came up with to derail finalizing the Camp David Accords. Ask Bill Clinton:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-young-americans-shocked-to-learn-arafat-turned-down-palestinian-state/

"Arafat “walked away from a Palestinian state, with a capital in East Jerusalem, 96% of the West Bank, 4% of Israel to make up for the 4% [of the West Bank to be annexed for Israeli settlements],” Clinton elaborated"