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Michael Dunn's avatar

Lock a couple million innocent people in an open air prison for the better part of a century after stealing their land from them, allow them just enough calories to avoid starvation, pump money into a militant organization to control them, place a curfew on them, bulldoze their homes occasionally, bomb them now and again, then act surprised when a few of them do something horrific. Israel's policy in a nut shell.

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“We’ve tried peace. It didn’t work. The enemy seeks nothing less than to repudiate our right to exist as a nation. Therefore: We now do what the “provocateur” has sought to do to us, and destroy them.”

Good article.

I’d like to add that the first premise was never true. They never tried peace. Only one PM tried a semblance of it - Yitzhak Rabin - and they killed him.

What they did is forced an unbearable unsustainable cruel “might makes right” with our approval on the people they drove out of their homes and into the equivalent of an open air prison.

The fact is, even though the arguments of Hitler and Berenson sound similar, the adversaries of Germany did nothing of the sort to Germans. Therefore, although in the face of it they might sound similar, in context the latter is a predictable reaction to persistent injustice.

Once you deny them the first premise, the rest of the argument falls apart and the roles of villain and victim become obvious.

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