However, singling out Israel for criticism, while ignoring worse cases elsewhere, is absolutely 100% anti-semitism, and anyone who denies that is deluding themselves.
"But mommy, he started it." Just because there are worse cases does not excuse anything.
I didn't say it does. You're putting words into my mouth and I don't appreciate it. All I said was, singling out Israel for criticism out of all possible countries who may be deserving of it, is a result of anti-semitism.
As opposed to singling out Palestine which is acceptable...
You can point the finger all you want. I’m not going to do that. In summary, theres two different sides to the story and a deep history in this. Both sides have suffered casualties. If it were an ideal world the conflict would just stop, but its not and it won’t.
Firstly: There is no such state as 'Palestine'.
Secondly: When I say singling out, I mean in a wider context, ie singling out Israeli killing of civilians but ignoring the killing of civilians by other countries. (America killed a few this week, did you see any front-page headlines?)
And I don't single out 'palestine'. I admit that Israel has committed wrongs, albeit nowhere near as much. I also admit that every other country in the world has also done things they shouldn't have.
You're right, in an ideal world the conflict would stop. But in the words of Binyamin Netenyahu: ‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’
Firstly, most of the countries of the world do actually recognise Palestine as a state. And how is this in anyway relevant to what we were talking about. I never mentioned anything about it, I'm stumped to the reason you'd bring that up (the only explanation I can come up with is that you're trying to degrade Palestine as much as you can and just thought that was another point to bring up)
Secondly, your view that Israel is the only nation being singled out... pfft. Thats a ridiculous view. Whenever a country does something controversial they are singled out. Are you kidding about America not being at the forefront of media or being 'singled out'? They have been blatantly blasted by many for there actions in Iraq and they've also been praised for there actions. Same goes for Israel bud, they have there supporters (you, obviously), but they will also get critisized. Same again with Palestine.
'Israel has committed wrongs' - correct, and so have Palestine
'Albeit nowhere near as much as Palestine' - Well thats your personal opinion, but in the past 5 years atleast the Palestinian casualties have exceeded those of Israel by over 1000%
Look there are two very different and complicated sides to the story. According to my understanding, after WW2, the Europeans promised and the UN voted for the partition of Palestine into two different states (one being the creation of a Jewish state: Israel). Obviously the arabs weren't very happy, many were pushed aside for Israel, but the Israeli's had definitely had there fair share of suffering during WW2. Thus all the civil wars, blah blah blah. But in summary that's why Palestine won't ever stop fighting. Imagine if the leaders of the world decided to take some land from Australia and allocate it to another nation, forcing Australians to relocate. We would no doubt fight for our land back, and it would be easier said then done saying something like "Yea Australia we've taken your land, we know you're upset but if you just stop fighting for it back then the violence will stop". Its not a very credible thing to say because we obviously won't stop fighting.
Believe me I'm not trying to pick sides. It may seem, by the way I've explained things here, that I've sided with Palestine but I am well and truly on the fence. I understand what they went through in WW2 was very horrific, perhaps the worst treatment of humans of all time, and that they too had there land stripped from them a few thousand years ago, but right now I'm just hoping, someday, a peace agreement will be somehow reached but like I said before, given the deep roots of this conflict I guess thats just not very likely.
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