I have a difficult time understanding your viewpoint Keynes..
I agree, the Palestinians shouldn't show opposition through force, but you seem like a fanatic in Israeli regard. Like a Fox correspondent in the states, Republicans can do no harm while the Democrats are welcoming the apocalypse..
I feel you'd have more credibility around here if you called a spade a spade and didn't support Israel hand and foot, no matter what. I mean, you've got to admit when a terrorist state commits terrorist acts, otherwise, credibility goes out the window.
I support Palestine, but I acknowledge the Palestinians commit terrorist acts. This in no way means I support their methods of protest. It doesn't make me a terrorist. In the same light, it wouldn't make you a terrorist for supporting the Israeli plight. As I do in certain aspects, it's genuinely fucked up they have to deal with rocket attacks from the enemy, it's fucked up they have to deal with internal car bombings. These things are without question, terrorist attacks. Indistinguishable from the military and civilian populations. But Israel does it, too. What'll it take for you, and people like you to acknowledge as much? Both sides are at fault, and both sides have legitimate reasons. The leadership is where the problems exist and the population deals with the repercussions.
my viewpoint is simple to understand.
Israel is a nation, this nation behaves in a manner which is consistent with their nature, to protect their borders and people from those outside.
all governments, from empires to nations, to city states, to home owner's associations all have the same basic function, to protect that which is inside, from that which is outside.
the palestinians are NOT a nation, empire or home owner's association, they are the barbarians at the gates seeking to invade a nation (israel) throw down it's walls, and take it's bounty for themselves
they operate in the same broad strokes just like the Mongolian hordes, the Barbary slavers, the Viking raiders and the modern Somali pirates. they attack from a position of concealment, then flee back into the trackless wilderness,, where they hide preparing their next attack. as a people with no official nation, no reliable law or government from which to seek redress, and no concern for the repercussions of their actions on the next innocent travelers who happen to dress like the bandits who just fled over the hill, they are in every way, barbarians. they have no borders to invade, no cities to bomb, and no nation to defeat in a war. they are a seething mass of "anarcho-mohammedanists" with no agenda beyond "kill the jews, take over israel, ummm.... profit?"
some invading armies operate differently, like the Vandals, the Visigoths, the Germans (roman era barbarian tribe) the Germans (hun era nation state with dreams of empire) and the Germans (nazi era socialist state with dreams of world domination). they attack from their own strongholds and seek to establish their dominance over more territory, if the palestinians actually admitted that that is what they are doing, then irael would crush them like bugs in an actual WAR war, instead they crouch down in the4 mud and hide among the "innocent victims" of the british mandate from 1947. if you read the reports from the brit mandatory authority and the various commissions (which were NOT pro-jewish by any stretch) you would see that when the brits said "we's gona make a new country out of this former imperial ottoman territory" a squatter's land rush began, as every assclown in the surrounding arab nations ran in to claim a bit of dirt with the pretense that "we been here since moses built the al aqsa mosque in 5000 bc"
the "palestinians" who actually lived in the region before the 1947 land rush were mostly HASHEMITES not arabs. hashemites and arabs have a long history of distrust and hate all their own, and this huge seething mass of arab squatters is a good part of the reason jordan (The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to be precise) doesnt want the west bank any more. (previously it was their main reason for joining in the first war against israel) this is why, unlike most of the rest of the region (even under occupation) local Tribal Leaders and Tribal Structure are the dominant social unit, but no fro the "palestinians", since they are a random mix of random arabs from all over the arab world who ran in to squat a plot and become land owners instead of tenant farmers. their squatting was not allowed by the british mandatory commissions, and is not recognized by israel (or jordan, or syria, or egypt etc etc) and is merely a convenient ploy to gin up western media angst and ashy knucked rage against the jews for being "zionist piggie jews" and "land stealers"
as such, i view the "palestinians" arguments of dispossession apartheid, and genocide as, in the main, fiction. because they are fiction.
Dispossessing a squatter is not "stealing land" it is evicting a squatter.
Aparthied is separation of one part of your own people from another, the "palestinians" are not, nor do they even claim to be israelis. thus the separation is just as proper and valid as ANY border fence in the world.
Genocide presumes that there is a "Geno" being targeted, not a loose association of foreigners, non-local tribesmen and squatters, and it also presumes there is a "Cide" going on, but there are now far more "palestinians" than there were in 1947, by orders of maginitude.
when the palestinians finally claim to be a nation, and behave like one, israel will be forced to deal with them as nations do, just as they do with iran, syria, jordan, and egypt. not a real friend in the bunch, but also a shocking lack of assaults on anyone except Lebanon, who are playing host to hezbollah, by their own admission, and got duly paddled for their laxity in the area of International Diplomacy's "Do Not Host Terrorists" Rule. thats a pretty important and long standing rule. allowing your citizens to form a non-governmental militant organization, and not stopping them from attacking a neighboring nation is considered rather poor form, and even a little rude. this has resulted in wars many times in the past. Why even the US had a problem with Fenian Militants in New York launching repeated INVASIONS of Canada. if not for the US's actions in rooting out and eliminating the troublesome militants we could well have had another war with britain in the 1860's.
if the "palestinians" continue with their current scheme, i'll not care what happens to them, just as i do not care how many somali pirates get waxed by Spetznatz commandos, Navy Seals or the SAS. barbarians get snuffed by civilized nations all the time. if they stay in their own land and dont fuck with other people's shit they wouldnt draw the anger of people with the ability to hunt them down and smoke them.
if you really want some violence to decry, how about:
tibet?
East Timor?
Iran's Ba'hai minority?
Iran's Jews?
the Uyghurs?
the non-albanians in the kosovo valley?
cyrprus?
see these are REAL genocidal oppressions, dispossession, and ethnic cleansings of people who aare not simply vagrants squatters and theives.