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PDJane

(10,103 posts)
7. As a nation in the middle east, in the nation of Palestine,
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 08:57 PM
Aug 2014

if displacing the Christian, Muslim, and other inhabitants in order to rebuild a Nation in all of the land of Palestine, and committing so many atrocities to do so...does Israel have the right to the support of the west to exist. If they continue to use biblical mentions as a method of siting settlements, and inflicting on Palestinians all of the restrictions and collective punishments and foreign inhabitants? I am no longer sure that Israel has any right to do this, while taking all the best land, the water table, the minerals, oil and gas, and collecting people into cantons....this is wrong by any standards that I hold, including those of my long lost religion.

These things were inflicted on the nation of Palestine (and yes, they had a nation and a government) in reparation for the holocaust, being honest. Since that is the case, does Israel have a right to force their presence on a a nation that had nothing to do with the holocaust? I still don't know the answer. Jews will survive whether Israel exists or not, you understand. Judaism has survived the diaspora, and intermarriages, and assimilation. Israel may not survive what Israel continues to do.

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