'This from the German.' Whoa, snappy comeback there! Couple of points: in the postwar period Germany has been a stalwart friend of the Israeli colonial project, supporting it with billions of euros. Feel free to research that. They have a bit of a guilt complex over the war. They should get over it already. I ain't dissing the Holocaust, just observing that they're incapable of objective judgement under the circumstances.
I'm Canadian by the way, not German so you'll have to come up with a different 'insult'. We did turn that boatload of Jewish refugees away in the second world war. You could maybe work that up into something.
Its nice that you can list all these various attacks on the Israeli civilian population. You're strangely silent on the far more numerous Israeli killings of Palestinian CIVILIANS. You probably have no idea. You've probably never thought to check - just swallowed the hasbara whole.
I haven't seen any Palestinian rockets. I have seen some of the millions of cluster bomblets Israel scattered across southern Lebanon at the end of their last invasion of their northern neighbour. More evidence of the trouble the IDF takes to avoid civilian casualties. I also watched a lot of clips of Apache gunships firing phosphorus into populated areas and civilians fleeing in terror. I note that the Palestinians have no army or air force with which to defend themselves.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-commander-we-fired-more-than-a-million-cluster-bombs-in-lebanon-1.197099
As for all this talk of 'Palestinian aggression' : the fourth largest army in the world, armed Israeli settlers actively colonizing newly seized Palestinian territory - and you want to talk about Palestinian aggression?
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Perhaps you missed this the first time I posted it. Its sort of a map of Palestinian aggression. Yep: they sure seem pretty aggressive to me!
And finally: much of the criticism of Palestinian tactics studiously avoids dealing with the fact that they're up against a large modern army, hopelessly outgunned and have to come up with different and devious guerilla strategies to challenge the ongoing THEFT OF PALESTINIAN LAND. (see map above). I'm sure they'd like to go toe to toe with the IDF, but until they're allowed an army to defend themselves with, it would be like a Zulu army of spearthrowers against Maxim guns. Pretty fucking ugly.
The violence would stop IN AN INSTANT if Israel abandoned its colonizing activities. I'll say that again. Its important.
The violence, which many in the west project upon the indigenous Arabs, would cease immediately if the Israelis stopped the relentless efforts to force them from their ancestral lands. THAT and THAT alone is the source of the violence. While the logic of this perspective is inescapable, I expect you will struggle with it for some time yet. But it provides the best fit with an evenhanded appraisal of the conflict.
The fact is the Israeli state, with its vastly superior military, has never once paused in its colonization of Palestinian land, though Palestinian calls for a halt to all such activities have been consistent from the start. The ugly reality is that the Israeli state consistently PROVOKES violence - the historical record will bear me out here so spare me more hasbara about Palestinian violation of ceasefires etc - because this provides it with the cover it needs to maintain its expansion. The Palestinians are attacking us! they shout as they roll over their olive groves, blow up a few more homes, build another wall that cuts off a village, takes another orchard, destroys another well.
