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Date: 2001-09-12 08:21:09

Comment:

First I want to say that I understand where Lucky G is coming from and I agree with his anti-racist sentiment, but some of his statements reflect a one-sided view.

Two quotes from him: ?The purpose of the village raid was simply to drive out the Palestinians so that the Israelis could "occupy" more territory,? and ?you will know that technically after WWII, Israel invaded Palestinian land.?  I don't think so.  You are sadly mistaken in your history.  There was plenty of other circumstances to the situation:

After WWII the United Nations decided to give the Jews a country of their own.  The UN chose land that was formerly part of British Empire and had a large number of Jews and Palestinians living in it (many Jews moved there after WWII with the urging of the British and rest of the world).  Thus, it was not Israel, but the world, that started this.  Israel was content with their territory until their neighbors began to attack them and attempt to wipe them off the map.  These wars were the result of hatred of the Jews by the surrounding countries.  

During the 1960s, Israel was targeted by its surrounding Arab neighbors in two main wars.  Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and others all teamed up to attack Israel.  And how did this attack occur?  In what I think is one of the most dispicable displays in human history, they attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, completely unprovoked.  Israel was a victim and to punish those who cowardly attacked them on their holiest day of the year, they created a buffer zone so that it would never happen again.  It was pure retaliation.  How do you think the Israeli citizens felt as they were praying on their holiest day of the year only to have many synagogues destroyed by Arab forces.  In other words, innocent women and children were killed just because the Arab nations wanted more land.  

So in pure retaliation, Israel took land from Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and that land is disputed to this day.  Yes, they trampled over Palestinian villages, but only in a hardlined retaliation for a senseless attack on their sovereignty.  Since it seemed other nations continued to gang up on them, they basically sent the message out to not f*ck with them and they could not afford to be any softer to their enemies than their enemies were to them.  It is a tragedy that the fighting came to civilians, but both sides committed terrible acts, with the Arabs attacking first, followed by the Israeli retaliation.  And it was the rest of the world that created the inhospitable situation, but again they did not have the advantage of hindsight.