Re: We have been through this before. You Europeans really gummed up the works again, didn't you?
European Puritans = European Zionists= Same game= Land acquistion through persecution stories, the inciting of the natives and ultimately murdering the natives with superior weaponry.
With G-d on their side.
Len, you (unwittingly?) hit the nail on the head.... The big "conceptual problem" the Judeofascists have is their inability to admit that History doesn't always repeat itself. By equating the Arabs/Palestinians with America's Indian tribes (of yore), they fraudulently hint at a common "civilizing mission" carried out by both "European Puritans" in America and "European Jews" in the Middle East. Hence their twisted logic: the end justifies the means --look at America today... isn't it beautiful? Isn't it the greatest democracy ever? And yet, it's been laid upon bloodshed, segregation, and fanatical bigotry altogether....
Problem is, Arabs are no Indians --or rather, Indians were no Arabs! The Indian tribes couldn't rely on assistance provided by sovereign Indian-ruled countries abroad, there never was an "Indian League of Nations", Indian-ruled countries didn't supply most of the energy resources (oil) to Western countries, and, last but not least, the technology/media gap between American colons and Natives was incommensurate with today's ubiquitous access to technology.
After all, that's why today Israel is still the tiny strip of land it was 50 years ago.... Did Americans ever enter a peace agreement with an Indian tribe similar to the Egypt-Israel deal that retroceded the Sinai to Egypt? The American steamroller just rolled on and never gave back a single square inch --except a few "gambling reservations".
However, the rapport de forces is different between Arabs and Jewish settlers... Everything is indeed a matter of might and right: the conquest of the New World by European outcasts (protestants, French huguenots, Jews,...) eventually turned out to be one of History's greatest achievements, granted, but it originated in a FAILURE: the Protestants' failure to make it at home, in Europe!!! Back home, would-be Protestant achievers found out that their uphill struggle against Europe's powers-that-be would never pan out and, accordingly, they just moved on to another battleground, across the Atlantic.... Likewise, in Algeria, in the 1950s, Colonialism hit the wall, and the French settlers, after a barbaric bloodshed, gave up on Algeria.
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