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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Even unskilled anti-semites are good at cherry picking when it suits their narrative. A few recent examples:
1. When in a thread about a catastrophe committed by Iran it was legitimately suggested that the people of Iran might be better off today but for the 1979 revolution the clock of history was wound back specifically to the date of the “disastrous Balfour Declaration” which envisioned the creation of the modern State of Israel in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
2. Apparently the 1947 UN partition plan which proposed two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian resulted in a “huge tract” of land being stolen from Palestinians. The 1948 armistice lines resulted in a country tiny in area compared to neighboring Arab territory.
3. If a Jewish state should have resulted from the Holocaust, which it seems from that poster is debatable, it certainly should not have been situated in biblical Israel.
4. Following the US action against the Iranian General, Iranian officials specifically stated that further action by the United States would result in attacks by Iran against Haifa and Tel-Aviv. Interesting that this seems totally irrelevant.
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1. actually I posited Iran might have been better off if we hadn't conquered it in 1943 and overthrown its reasonably democratic regime, I made no comment about Balfour as regards Iran.
2. that the original border of Israel was smaller in '49 doesn't alter the fact that it was all taken from the Arabic inhabitants in the first place and therefore was bound to cause problems, if China decided that as there are a lot of Chinese people in Richmond and the lower mainland they were going to create a small Chinese country in BC we would be happy would we?
3. The only point I have made is the creation of Israel in the Middle East due to a crime committed in Europe by mainly Germans wasn't likely to make the local Palestinians happy about having their land taken, a resentment we are still dealing with to this day.
4. Trump has constantly threatened to reign hell on all kinds of people, most of us know it is just rhetoric, as it is when Iran threatens Israel.
Iran has thus far never attacked Israel except through its proxies, unlike Israel that has occasionally bombed Iran (for very good reason).
You and Peter assume that because I see a large reason for our problems in the region being our creation and support of Israel that I think we shouldn't have done either, this isn't true, I just see the result of us doing this as a reason we are attacked these days and I think if we are to find a way out of this mess we have to be honest about this.