I support the right of Israel to exist in peace and security on the pre-1967 boundaries-the only areas thst are legitimate part of Israel. And yes, of course anti-Semitism has not ended. But the things you see not to be willing to acknowledge is that Palestinians are not responsible for the global history of anti-semitism that the world STILL needs to confront once and for all, and confront in the only way it can be properly confronted, as part of a global strategy to wipe out all forms of hatred and exploitation and injustice. Palestinians were not responsible for the Dispersal-that was the Roman and Persian Empires. They were not responsible for the Inquisition or the establishment of the Ghettos-that was Catholicism(and the Lutherans and Calvinists were little better, sometimes worse). They were not responsible for the Tsar's pogroms or Hitler's crimes- The first was the product of the corruption and paranoia of a dying Christian empire, the second of the twisted heritage ot 19th century European nationalism, the inevitable consequences of the insistence on creating ethnic-exclusive "nation-states", consequences we are beginning to see again in the essentially fascist European nation-states of Poland and Hungary.
Yes, what had been done to the world's Jewish communities by 1948 was barbaric and unspeakable- but it was largely the work of European Christians. It was never reasonable to expect Palestinians to accept the idea that a large number of them should have to accept dispossession for crimes they bore no responsibility for.
Israel is there to stay, it's survival is not in question, what people think about it has nothing to do with whether or not they deserved to be accused of antisemitism- and it is not a reasonable expectation to ask the world to support things like the bombing of Gaza or the continued expansion of the illegal West Bank settlements, OR to oppose the creation of a Palestinian state- Israel has no right to ask Palestine to make peace with it without getting a state since anything short of that means Palestinians living under permanent repression- in order to prove they are not antisemitic.
Peace and reconciliation are needed, but they can never come through Israeli military victory-or Palestinian military victory- because military victory is impossible in all conflicts in that region-or possibly anywhere else in the world- and because military victory, even if it was possible, would achieve nothing- the military crushing of Hamas or Fatah can have no effects OTHER than creating a massive number of far-more-extreme splinter groups, all pledged to gain vengeance.
The only hope is to get out of the pointless obsession with military victory, and stop insisting that the Israeli side in this conflict can be trusted to behave like decent human beings but the Palestinian side can never merit such trust- peace can never be made by insisting that one side accept the idea that it is morally inferior to the other.
Nothing personal towards you in this response...just comments about the utterly futile Likudnik mindset your posts seem to reflect.
