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and yes people were [mentaly ill] back then also.

hearing gods voice that tell you to kill others is not sanity

Larry should drop you by helicopter into Gaza and have you go tell Hamas how happy you are to be a peace loving Jew and then count the seconds until you’re whacked.

Imagine if your entire city was bulldozed to make way for occupation.

I don’t see how you could say he was legitimizing Hamas in anyway by saying that what Irgun did to the Brits is the same as what Hamas is doing to Israel. To me, he’s saying it’s wrong – just like what Irgun did.

I can understand people getting upset here at the comments towards Israel, but where did all the love for Irgun come from? If you want to be taken seriously, you must admit they were a terrorist organization.

I also noticed a sense of a connection in Larry’s statement that it was ok to elect Begin and negotiate with him and respect him as a leader – even though he was the head of a terrorist organization…but do not negotiate with Palestine because they had Arafat…now Hamas.

This is an interesting piece. Written by Jews For Justice In The Middle East:
http://www.cactus48.com/OriginMSW.pdf

If you like anecdotal evidence, here are some quotes from it:

“By 1948, the Jew was not only able to ‘defend himself’ but to commit massive atrocities as well. Indeed, according to the former director of the Israeli army archives, ‘in almost every village occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes’…Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that ‘every skirmish ended in a
massacre of Arabs.’” Norman Finkelstein, “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.”

and

“Before [the Palestinians] very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they, and their ancestors, have lived…We are the generation of colonizers, and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a home.” Israeli leader Moshe Dayan, quoted in Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, “Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel”

and

“[Ben-Gurion stated] ‘If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second -because we face not only the reckoning of those children, but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.’

I’m sometimes interested in anecdotal evidence, so let’s examine:

A friend of mine who was on the FBI’s Hostage Rescue team recounted his experience while providing security for General Tony Zinni, who was on a peace mission to Israel and Palestine during the Clinton Administration.

So roughly 13 years ago (relevant – maybe if you’re a historian)…and then this:

I asked him about the quality of Palestinian security personnel he met and was shocked by his answer. He described the Palestinians as far more professional than the Israelis–

And then the typically astute LJ serves up this:

they were well groomed, neat uniforms, handled weapons carefully, and showed respect for their chain of command. The Israelis security personnel, in contrast, were arrogant and sloppy.

But just in case you aren’t a crew cut dry cleaned kind of guy there’s more!

Or how about the Israeli pilots who were with a U.S. intelligence officer in an Arab country. Instead of maintaining a low profile they waved their Israeli passports around, tried to spend shekels, and can(sic) very close to getting whacked by the security forces in that country.

Whacked for being … Jewish.

And that is why I will support Israel.

Because what is missing in LJ’s critique is the answer. So Snickers wins my vote.

At least until someone comes up with the “perfect, crisp, clean” way to deal with folks trying to annihilate Jews.

Even the sloppy Jews from 1996 deserve to live.

“How did [I] feel when you saw the innocent people killed on the streets of Israel by Palestinian suicide bombers?”

Sickened and distressed. Does that answer your question?

Seems you read your own bias into things.

what about this then:
http://www.cdiss.co.uk/Documents/Uploaded/CDISS%20Programme%20-%20Database%20of%20Terrorist%20Incidents%20-%201940-1949.pdf

It starts out like this…From the British – CDISS:

1945
October 31
Jewish terrorist offensive against British rule in Palestine begins, with a wave of bomb attacks on police vehicles, railway sites and Haifa oil refinery. One policeman, one soldier and two railway workers killed.
November 27
Eight British soldiers killed in bomb attack on police station Jerusalem, Palestine, in Jewish Irgun terrorist attack.

I guess you approve whole heartedly with Irgun…since you say they always called them in advance.

And here it says about the King David:
July 22

Ninety people killed and forty five wounded after Jewish terrorists blow up he King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine, hich was home to British government and military offices. The terrorists held workers at pistol point while they planted the explosives in the basement of the hotel.

I guess they always called before this:

1947
July 12
Jewish Irgun terrorists kidnap and then hang two British Army sergeants. The terrorists were trying to secure the release of three Irgun members who had been sentenced to death by the British authorities in Palestine.
September 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists bomb police station in Haifa, Palestine, killing four British and four Arab policemen, as well as two Arab civilians. Forty six people injured.
December 12
Twenty Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed and thirty wounded in Jewish terrorist bomb attacks on buses in Haifa and Ramleh, Palestine. British mandate to rule Palestine ends on 15 May 1948; state of Israel established.
December 29
Jewish Irgun terrorists throw grenades from passing taxi into café near the Damascus gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, killing eleven Arabs and two British policemen.

And the Deir Yassin massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

Clearly, you are ignorant of the mountain of writing, analysis, and opinion from people inside Israel who dispute their government’s policies on Gaza.

But aside from that shocking gap in your brain, you haven’t discovered the mountains of reporting on the fact that people are STARVING, children are dying of malnutrition, people are banned from getting to hospitals by IDF checkpoints and die there, even in childbirth in the back of ambulances which are forbidden to pass by Israeli Defense Forces.

You are clearly ignorant of Israeli Defense Forces who are refusing to carry out their own government’s policies in the Palestinian Territories because they find the policies so horrendous.

Palestinians are being systematically starved, can’t visit family, can’t go to jobs, can’t get to hospitals, cannot import products to sell or make, are defrauded of their own land by Israeli settlers, and are collectively imprisoned in a ghetto in Gaza.

B’tselem, the Israeli Human Rights Organization reports on how the Israeli government is violating human rights of Palestinians.

If the US held this sort of moral value in high regard, we’d be in a much different world. We must inspect what we expect.

Then why do you do it? are you against peace?

You have expressed bias towards your own view at the loss of the other view…do not want peace?

I am not afraid of the dialectic process where our views may really clash. But if you’ve simply decided Israel is the victim, (note: innocent civilians are innocent) and Palestinians are the “suicide bombers”…then you cannot participate in peace because you’ve chosen your biased view.

You didn’t give the example of the innocent Palestinian mother who lost her house to a bulldozer because her nephew, who she cannot control, struck out at Israel. Or the other shellings, starvation, and humiliation that is suffered by Palestinians every damn day.

I blame the Government of Israel and the US for these problems that affect BOTH sides of the equation. Blood spilled from a Jewish person in Sderot is no less valuable than blood spilled in Rafah.

Have you turned a blind eye to the Palestinians because to you they are just “suicide bombers”?

Have you ever even considered what causes a person to want to get to that point?

Have you considered what must change in order that young men and women will focus on love, life and family instead of blowing themselves up?

Well, I have considered it. And the consideration has shown that continuing to shell Gaza in the way Israel does with its chopper attacks, airstrikes, etc….WON’T GET IT.

Have you ever seen footage of an Israeli attack?
They are hardly discriminate in nature.
Don’t give me bullshit about how “israel goes out of its way to protect innocent people”.

If you want to talk about a blind eye…then lets talk about the blind eye being turned to Israel’s criminal actions.