Originally Posted by
gibran
enter the debate with real history ... do you even know the history of the Ingun Stern gang .. didn't think so.. This conflict is a little more complex than the movie Exodus... and yes our brothers and sisters that are Jewish deserve a homeland but so do the ingenious population too. Besides a little perspective: the goal to develop Israel happened prior to WWII... it is called Zionism..and those unsurmountable odds well history is full of smaller well armed and trained armies handing it to the populations... look no further than Iraq...
No one wants to "crap" on ISrael..no more than they should crap on the Palestinians.. it would behove you to read some history ... Howard Zinn would be a starting point.. Noam Chomsky another.. or even if you want the Arab perspective Edward Said.. enjoy... then get back to us.
July 2, 1946: The King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. Killing 91 people
Menachem Begin sic who planned the destruction of the King David Hotel and the massacre of Deir Yassin [[See picture at top of this page, flanked by pictures of the bombed King David Hotel). Ex prime minister, Shamir, was originally a member of the Jewish "terrorist" gang called Irgun, which was headed by none other than Menachem Begin. Shamir later moved over to the even more radical "Stern Gang," which committed many vicious atrocities.
Shamir himself has defended the various assassinations committed by the Irgun and Stern gangs on the grounds that "it was the only way we could operate, because we were so small. So it was more efficient and more moral to go for selected targets." The selected moral targets in those early days of the founding of the state of Israel included bombing of the King David Hotel and the massacre of Deir Yassin.
having read this post again I found it very offensive and against the very goal of finding a co-exhistence..my apologies..I should have done a better job of finding a reference to educate...my real bad.