Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
That video seems very much to a propaganda piece too. Nobody is talking about a return to pre 1950 borders anyway. The way to broker a 2 state solution is according to the 1967 accords.

How many threads are you going to start on this topic anyway Bilbo? I think you have now overtaken me!
An open letter from the Jews to the World, including you Miles.


All I got from that video was a self righteous rabbi trying to tell us how persecuted the Jews were and that they eventually decided to live in the Middle East, surrounded by Arabs as a way of trying to avoid all that. Okay, there was more, but it was too brief and all too one sided anyway. I don't buy into his one sided take on it all whatsover. As a historian I know not to take one point of view at face value and a simple video is never going to alter my thinking in any serious way. I've already said that Israel now has a right to exist. America commited mass genocide in wiping out up to 100, 000, 000 native indians. Do we now say America is an illegitimate state? If you go back far enough most states are illegitimate in that sense. But now it exists, progress needs to be made.

Recent goings on are not the actions of a blameless, hard done by state. They are the actions of an unhinged and heavily subsidised baby brother of the worlds major (and itself rather unhinged) superpower. Jew's have been repressed throughout history, but that doesn't relate to now. The people in control in Israel have never been bullied and have only known being the bully.