Is Israel a terrorist state?

[Gandalf]

I voted "No." The title/basis of this thread is ridiculous. Not even worth responding to.

I've come to conclude that the Israeli/Palestinian issue will never be solved. We'll be reading about it when we're old men. Palestinians and Israeli's will never embrace the examples set forth by MLK and Ghandi as they should.

Israel's threat to world peace is a very serious issue and the way they go about asserting their 'authority' is by acting in a way that might be quite easily described as state sponsored terrorism. Of course, it isn't just Israel. Our own nations are guilty of the most heinous crimes against humanity too.

As is Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, and the United States. And so many nations are guilty of heinous crimes against humanity.

In their own ways they are. Its quite apt how the US fits so snugly amongst those other countries. Sad really.

Here is Ratner speaking more about what is going on in occupied territories. Palestinians being turfed out and settlers being moved in and backed by the military and manipulation of the law to suit only the Israeli side. These lands should not have Israelis in them and yet Palestinians are being forced to live in tents. These people must really hate the Palestinians to keep doing this to them. There is no justification nor defence for such an obvious violation of international law.