Racist?? How on earth do you get that from anything I said? Any Israeli I've known has been the same race I am. Many aren't.
You don't know enough Israelis then. Israel is quite the melting pot, especially given the huge numbers of displaced Jews they've taken in from all over. Not all Israelis are cookie-cutter whites.
??? I didn't metion Palestine, or any other nation such as Uganda or Samoa. I don't see the relevance to my comment.
You're being disingenous. There is a context to the actions of the Israeli state. If you deem them to be a "terrorist state" then there has to be somebody they are terrorizing. And in this context, most would presume the supposed victims to be Palestinians. If I'm wrong in my presumption, please define for us who you think the Israelis are terrorizing.
Not sure your point here. Many Arab countries are horribly backwards and bigoted. But you can't use that to justify that other nations have the right to act like terrorists.
Fortunately for us, our enemies aren't next door. I would suggest that our morals would be quite different if there were populations ten times our size hell-bent on wiping every last one of us off the face of the earth. Under this context, defining one side's actions as terrorism while completely ignoring the other side's thinly disguised desire for genocide (or being outright dismissive of this reality as you are) is atrocious wilful ignorance and morally vapid.
That and what you call terrorism, most would consider (including most Israelis) to be legitimate self-defence.
I don't know why one can't acknowledge that Isreal is a backward bigoted terrorist nation without pointing to it's neighbours and saying it's okay that they are like that, because their neighbours are worse. Do you rape your neighbour and then say it's okay, because my neighbour would have killed them instead?
This is just inflammatory nonsense. The whole reason the Israelis are in Palestine in the first place is because they were attacked several times by their neighbours, with one of the aggressors being Trans-Jordan (which included the present-day West Bank). If my neighbour had decided to repatedly try to kill my children, and try and wipe out my whole extended family, I would have zero issues with sitting in his living room with my shotgun to make sure he decides to stay off my property and not attack my loved ones. I would not wait for him to pick off my loved ones one-by-one in the faint hope that he might somehow decided to compromise years down the road. And I would stay there until he agreed to make a reasonable peace.
It's one thing for Palestinians to target the Israeli Army in their homeland. And most would consider such resistance legitimate. But it's quite another matter to target Israeli civilians in Israel proper who have nothing to do with the conflict. The Palestinians can end this quite easily. The day they decide not to make killing Jews their life's ambition, there will be peace in the region. You really think Israelis aren't fed up with the occupation too? They've got to send young conscripts to risk their lives, in the hopes that they'll have a buffer zone for their country. You don't think they'd rather have peace? But what happens when the give the Palestinians space? Just look at Gaza. The Gazans elected Hamas and then supported Hamas launching rocket attacks in Israel proper.
There are Israeli actions I fully disagree with (settlement expansion, imposition of internal movement controls in Palestine, controls on Palestinian aid and trade, etc.). But to suggest that the current situation is solely the fault of the Israelis and that attempts to defend themselves from repeated attacks through some form of strategic depth after fighting several wars on their own soil constitutes terrorism is ridiculously bigoted nonsense. The day all their Arab neighbours recognize Israel's right to exist in peace is the day there will be peace. At that point, if the Israelis continued with their occupation, I would support the "terrorist" label. But while you have Palestinian governments like Hamas which refuse to talk to Israel, teach Blood Libel to school kids and consider it legitimate to target Israeli civilians in Israel, it's nonsense to suggest that the Israeli Army seeking to create a buffer zone is equivalent to terrorism.
