Yeah, sure, Steven a tidy little explanation. Sure explains how come everywhere on the planet that a population moved in the last hundred years, an unending "cycle of violence" followed...um, wait, that generally hasn't happened, has it?
Seems a little hard that the Zionist "crime" of buying land then evicting the tenants (generally after paying them off, which they weren't bound to do) is imputed to be so much worse that, just to pick an example at random, the Turkish destruction of Smyrna in 1922 and driving out 1.5 million Greek refugees, a truly ancient population. Where is the endless "cycle of violence" that followed?
On a similar vein, it seems to me that one or two new countries have been founded in the last hundred years without the neighbors taking the attitude "We refuse to accept reality. If we can't destroy it, we're just gonna hold our breath until we turn blue and hope it all goes away."
In short, what is really unique about the situation is the extent and duration of Arab intransigence (and you know damn well that the Palestinians themselves are just pawns in this game), not anything that the Zionists did either a hundred years ago or yesterday. |
