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]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)How about placing all Palestinians in filthy refugee camps while denying them access to state health, education and economic services? How about Jordan actually annexing all of East Jerusalem and the West Bank? You think settlements are bad, Jordan actually took everything.
And when the Palestinians decided to carve their own state out of Jordanian land, Jordan responded not by forming "Jordanian-only roads" as you so quaintly suggest, but by crushing them. By mashing them mercilessly into the dust. Does that somehow not qualify as an event worth resisting? In your world, is the segregating of roads for security purposes a worse crime than wholesale slaughter? Jordan killed so many Palestinians no one is even sure how to count them all accurately. THEN it expelled the Palestinian's entire political leadership. The whole PLO was totally cleansed. (Can you even imagine Israel doing such a thing to Hamas? Laughable, isn't it?)
That said, Palestinian terrorism far predates any of the items that you are positing as its cause. It is patent nonsense. For example... segregated roads grew out of the problem of Palestinian gunmen firing on Israeli cars. It is not a chicken and egg problem.
But you have your answer anyway. Jordan took the entirety of Western Palestine for itself, forced its inhabitants into filthy camps, massacred them to an extent that was exponentially worse than the sum of anything Israel did over 65 years, and expelled their entire leadership organization.
I do not know if they uprooted any trees though.