It seems that the invasion of Palestine by the Jews from Europe after WW2 into Israel caused a lot of violence and hatred between neighbouring arabs and local jews that was, if not absent, at least kept under control before the 1948 war. Naturally, the Jews always wanted to get their state, lost to Egypt hundreds of years before, and had the weapons and manpower (plus US backing) to do it in 1948. But did they imagine the bloodshed it would cause until now? And what exactly did they think would happen to the displaced arabs (now known as the stateless "Palestinians") if violence were constantly used against them? Violence breeds violence, which is something the jews in Israel seem to have forgotten from the Holocaust.
2007-09-08
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