Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I never spread the organ theft smear, and in fact I'm pretty sure I attacked it. I certainly never believed such a disgusting claim, and from what I read, nobody here believed it either(if anyone did, I assume it got them banned and properly so).
And nothing I have ever said about Israel was comparable to either that OR to your poisonous equation of Palestinians with Nazis(something you personally owe every Palestinian in the world an apology for-including those who fought in the British Army AGAINST Hitler).
(which is a slanderous comparison, since, unlike Hitler, Palestinians were not trying to create a Judenrein world.)
Also, I have never said the events of 1948 were exclusively Israel's fault. What I said should be apologized for was the expulsion of the 800,000 innocent Palestinian civilians. Saying that is not equivalent to calling anybody a Nazi, nor is it a vicious attack on Israel.
The suggestion was made in the name of getting Palestinians to accept officially(I think they accept it on a practical level already)that they wouldn't get full RofR. That part of what I've heard the descendants of displaced Palestinians saying(in the writings or people like Karl Sabbagh, for example)was that one of the things they most want is, simply, acknowledgment...and acknowledgment that they did and DO have a real connection to those lands...that, unlike the myths spread by the early Israeli governments, the Palestinians were never just "generic Arabs" who simply showed up(or were brought)in at the last minute for the sole purpose of causing trouble.
There were a number of things the Arab side could have done differently...there were things the Palestinian side did differently...but the most important thing, and this goes for both sides, is to acknowledge that innocent people were harmed, and that that harmed needs to be addressed somehow.
That is totally different from demonizing a country or calling anybody a Nazi. And what I proposed wouldn't do Israel the slightest bit of harm.
Finally, I would never equate Israel with Nazi Germany. While I have issues with what the Israeli government has done in the name of security, that's just not something I'd even THINK, let alone say.