RE: should america support Israel?
August 5, 2014 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2014 at 5:16 pm by little_monkey.)
(August 5, 2014 at 5:00 pm)bberryhill0 Wrote: How many of the 5 million Palestinians are involved in the armed struggle? 1%?
I don't know the exact number but consider that they have elected Hamas, whose first political article is the destruction of the state of Israel, then you just can't give the Palestinians special pleading. Secondly, if the Palestinians were strongly inclined to give up their arm struggle, then they would clamp down on their own. Instead, they idolize their "freedom fighters", even as to allow them to shoot from heavy populated areas, build tunnels to smuggle weapons, and by such actions/inactions, they are as guilty as those who are actually fighting.
(August 5, 2014 at 5:09 pm)Chuck Wrote: No, I don't think 7 million Israelis would move on their own. But I give 100 million Arabs a higher chance of successfully getting their act together and persevering until they throw the Israelis out in the next 300 years then I would give 7 million Israelis for maintaining their qualitative margin long enough to survive through 300 years.
That's exactly the calculus the Palestinians have made. And so, as I have stated, their complain that they have a miserable life is of their own doing.
