Tornado Alley (PROG)

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I understand how Israel feels???

Are you sure? ICAHD is the Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions. Did you read anything on that page I refered you to? Do you understand how that very significan portion of Israel feels?

Have you ever read Haaretz? Tikkun? Peace Now? That's the Israel that I understand.

I used to understand the one that you understand... Then I found out I actually just couldn't understand them. It was all about ethnic cleansing and genocide. Land, water and power.

Read some more Israelis. Tom segev, Benny Morris, Simha Flapan You're a humanoid. You'll get it.

Read some of this:
http://www.palestiniantragedy.com/jewsagainstter.html

A group of Jewish academics, the self-proclaimed "new historians," has been exposing the "sacred lies" embedded in official Israeli policy, and the truths associated with them, since the early 1980s. Its members, namely, Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev, Baruch Kimmerling, Simha Flappan, and Joel Miqdal, are provoking strong reactions from Jews with Zionist leanings. They deal with the following "sacred lies": Arabs are racially inferior to Jews, Israel is a small country trying to survive in a region surrounded by enemies, all Palestinians are terrorists who want to destroy Israel, and these crazy terrorists deserve every kind of retaliation. Tom Segev, for example, one of the most prominent of these "new historians," has this to say of Israel's "official" history: "Until very recently, we did not have real history in this country; we had mythology."2 This just criticism, once offered only by Muslim academics and scholars, is now being expressed more loudly by many Jewish and Christian academics who are attempting to evaluate history in an unbiased manner.

These people, having witnessed the horrors of the Zionist ideology, see it as yet another of the colonialist ideologies founded in nineteenth-century racism. They give no credence to the myth that Israel is "a small and lonely country, surrounded by enemies who want to destroy it." To the contrary: Israel, through its actions, has proven to be a violent country that follows a policy of oppression and aggression.

Read a little. It may change your views some. It did mine... maybe 13 or 14 years back. I went most of my life believing the myth. It ain't black and white. I'll tell you that.