Both-siderism is alive and well

[Happy Hoosier]

12. None of this happened in a Vacuum.

But if you're telling me that civilian settlements in the occupied territories are defensive, I have a very hard time buying that. The occupied West Bank is NOT Israel, and Israel has no right to colonize it.... would you agree with that?

If Israel feels the need to maintain military outposts there to ensure it's security, that would make sense. Israel has a right to act defensively... civilan settlements are NOT defensive.

And trying to use US Westernward expansion as a justification? C'mon.

First, there is a hundred between America's genocidal westward expansion and the Israeli expansion in to the West Bank

Second, I doubt you'll find anyone here who thinks what theU.S. did was okay. It wasn't.

But if you're going to sit there are try to defend everything Israel has done in this conflict, it'll be hard to take you seriously.

Israel, like the U.S. and basically every other country, has made many mistakes. 70 years of history tells us we don;t have it right yet.

And yes, a GREAT DEAL of blame rests on the shoulders of the Palestinianas and other Arab nations. If the Palestinians and Arab nations had accepted the initial partition proposal, perhaps we wouldn't be here. But here, we indeed, are.