User blog comment:Daxus Inferno/Real Countries?/@comment-5169980-20130402001116/@comment-3398633-20130402141142

That's not an excuse. Israel is the most powerful nation in the MIddle East, and they have been responsible for killing more Arabs over the last half a century than the latter has over the last several centuries. Israel has been bombing their cities, killing their people, and hiding behind others when their called out on it, and screaming anti-semtism whenever anyone defends Palestine. They've based all of their claims on the Old Testoment of the Bible, which if one reads closely, states that God took their land away for killing his son and refusing to obey him after he gave them many chances to do so.

Politically speaking, the Arabs have been there far longer than the Israelis themselves. Moses and the Israelites settled Palestine in 1300 BCE (ironically after taking the land from someone else). They were booted out of the region in 70 AD by the Romans (karma maybe?). The Arabs took shortly afterwards, and have been living there for the last two thousand years, giving them a 700 year lead on the Israelis. So based on that alone, the Arabs have been there far longer than the Israeli, and in much larger numbers too.

Yes, the Jews have had a bad history, but so have most of the world's religious and ethnic groups. In fact, most of the hatred came from the fact they killed a religious icon and denied to those who worshipped him, so that was expected. However, killed thousands of unarmed or poorly armed Palestinians based on "self-defense", is what most nations have rightly considered a war crime. The fact Israel has continued to violate international law after most of the international community has condemned for it, made me decidedly pro-Palestine.

I honestly can't see how you can bomb an entire family using an F-16, and call that "self-defence". I can't see how you can try to explain why Israel is in the wrong, and be called an anti-semite. And I can't see how the most powerful nation in the world, my nation, can see Israel killing thousands, stealing land from innocents, and purposely trying to stop a two-state plan, which everyone sees, and still support them. If anything, Israel is wrong, as they know what their doing is wrong, and are just as bad as those they are condemning.