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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Being of Jewish decent, I've had the Zionist ideal pounded into me since a young age by the people surrounding me (and to a lesser degree, my parents), where the Jewish faith groups and schools often play the victim to get their own way.
Unfortunately, the issue is complicated by a million different factors (geographics, politics, religion, proximity to people that hate them, etc.) to make it as cut and dry as "They should/shouldn't be there", but I'll tell you one thing:
I am goddamn tired of hearing my own people (Jews) constantly spout that they need Israel to survive, and a strip of land in the Middle East is worth having millions of people die for (again). When local Jewish youth relish at the thought of travelling overseas to fight on border patrols and the like to get the opportunity to shoot Arabs, I swear they should be excommunicated and slapped around with a studded leather belt.
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Just maybe you should have listened a little closer instead of being so arrogant. Just maybe there was a very good reason for that POUNDING.
A little history lesson I am sure you have been told and ignored/forgotten/never thought worthwhile listening to while living in a free (safe) society.
6 millions Jews died (and millions prior to the holocaust via various progroms) because they had no where to go. Nobody would help them when they needed to flee. No country on Earth. They had NO options. They were herded into gas chambers and slaughtered enmass.
Just have a thought to what that must have felt like. Ask your relatives. Maybe that is why they feel like digging in and fighting for a small strip of land in the Middle East.
Could be that they feel that the only ones they can count on is themselves? Just a thought.