Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said that Israel was born in sin like all other nations were born throughout history.
He Said: “Israel, as a society, suppressed the memory of its war against the local Palestinians, because it couldn't really come to terms with the fact that it expelled Arabs, committed atrocities against them, dispossessed them. This was like admitting that the noble Jewish dream of statehood was stained forever by a major injustice committed against the Palestinians and that the Jewish state was born in sin.”
Do you agree?
http://democracynow.org/finkelstein-benami.shtml
2006-08-16
19:48:43
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The Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948, Israel intended to expel them. The opportunity came along during the war, and they did so.
Now, under international law, refugees are entitled to return to their homes once the battlefield conflict has died down. And after the war, Israel refused to allow the Palestinians back. That was how Israel came into being.
Under international law, the Palestinians have the right to return. It's about legal rights. Their right to return was denied.
That is the "SIN'. And it is not "Exactly" like what happed in America, Australia or many other countries. Many of those refugees are still very much alive, and as X.info noted "the difference is that Israel committed these atrocities AFTER WWII, in the 20th century – were there as a United Nations and International Low - while other nation did that thousands of years ago".
2006-08-18
22:55:53 ·
update #1