Is israel acting so tough because of angst over the way jews went like lambs to the slaughter in WW2 ??

Answer 1

No, there's much more to it than that.

Answer 2

perhaps.
Israel has the need to be "tough". The Crusades, WW2, and the now raging Iraq war has constantly terrorized the citizens of Israel and its people.

In addition you can't just ignore the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the genocides committed by Hitler and his loyal facists.

Though the crimes were great, I doubt the possiblity that the Israeli people would take their revenge on their neighbors. Not only would they look like they are waving a Nazi flag but on the account of morals and ethinic values it would seem stupid. They arent killing(sorry if this is harsh) Palenstines for no reason. Their has been feuds since biblical times and it still continues. To answer your question: NO, it is just an old unresolved conflict.

Answer 3

yes. exactly. that's one reason i think most blacks don't like turning the other cheek because had their cheeks slapped for four hundred years.

the same with the jews. but since 1948 the jewish zionists have been treating the palestinians the same way the jews were treated for the most part.

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 4

no, because they're being killed in terror attacks and having rockets fly at their towns. There have been many terror attacks since the peace agreement that israel has not responded to; that's why they don't show up for 5 min on american t.v. Now, Israel has had enough and has to fight back. What if someone attacked the states, would you be asking this same question. By the way, you're not the boss.

Answer 5

They did not just go like lambs to the slaughter. Learn some history before you start generalizing it.

Answer 6

No, Israel is only protecting their country against the forces that want to destroy it.
Hamas and Hezbollah have stated they will destroy Israel and take over their territory.
If those two groups stop attacking Israel the fighting would stop right away.
Israel only wants to live in peace.

Answer 7

Nazi Germany is not very different than Israel. In that they are both racist and deserve to suffer until the end of their lives in serving bloodsuckers like Hitler, Sharon, Olmert. They'll also share same destiny.

Answer 8

No. They are doing what any sovereign nation would do when confronted with Missle attacks and attacks on their soldiers. They are fighting back.

If Israel wanted to get nasty, they could unleash their nuclear and biological weapons.

Answer 9

So 60 years after a hundred thousand jews were killed, jews want to kill a hundred thousand muslims?

Hitler was a christian, wasn't he? They kill, for greed, and because they want to kill. Earth has enough for man's need, but not for man's greed.

Let us give the moon to Americans, and Mars to Palestinins, and Saturn to Jews. i hpe that's large enough for them?

Answer 10

come on there doing the slaughtering now

Answer 11

i Doubt they had a choice friend, the SS were the most barbaric regiment going