I don't involve myself in the idea of a Jewish conspiracy whatsoever, but this is not exactly true. While obviously Israel has existed for some time, one can still be opposed to the idea of taking the land of people that have inhabited such a land for a long, long time and hold legitimate claims to that land to create a state for people that once lived there thousands of years ago and hold claim to that land that is nothing more than quasi-mythic. The aggression and violence demonstrated by the Israeli government over the years and their disregard for the slightest interests of the Palestinian people (read: NOT Hamas) has compounded the issue.
As Bertrand Russell wrote:
Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to "reason" and has suggested "negotiations". This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country. How can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
We are frequently told that "we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis." What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country. How can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
We are frequently told that "we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis." What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
Perhaps these points may not be relevant to this particular situation, but a statement that condemns anyone that disagrees with the ideology and hypocrisy that led to the foundation of Israel as anti-Semitic is ignorant.
