I am Israel

[SHRED]

I am Israel - I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 480 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history.

I am Israel - some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 men, women, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.

I am Israel - carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose milies lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship.

I am Israel - in 1967, I swallowed the remaining lands of Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza - and placed their inhabitants under an oppressive military rule, controlling and humiliating every aspect of their daily lives. Eventually, they should get the message that they are not welcome to stay, and join the millions of Palestinian refugees in the shanty camps of Lebanon and Jordan.

http://www.noorullah.org/2006/08/04/i-am-israel-2/

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Get ready for some serious loving

:rofl:

[onehandle]

2. I am the United States of America.

What you said, except we did it to Native Americans and their civilizations.

I don't see liberals leaving the U.S. en masse, or arguing about the fact that we did these things, constantly and at length.

[Tom Joad]

4. Of course, we are not bombing Indian villages at the moment, either.

Or denying them the right to buy land anywhere in the United States.

The US is supporting a terrible injustice to indigenous people of Palestine.

One wrong does not justify another. That's what i learned in kindergarten, anyway.

[OrechDin]

5. Yes the US should do for the Palestinians what they never did for the Jews

OPEN THE GATES,LET THEM IN FOR GOODNESS SAKES.

[Tom Joad]

6. Um, why not let Palestinians stay in their homeland?

[Erika]

3. The U.S. funds Israeli wars

Not in my name. Of course, we also give $ to Palestine and Lebanon but to a drastically lower degree.

[undergroundrailroad]

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