Had Israelis not revealed their true selves, then your hasbara might stand a better chance of deceiving me @fuller
From their actions it's quite clear that, for Israeli Zionists, "chosen people" is an expression of racial superiority. Zionist Israel has far less in common with Judaism than it does with Nazism.
The Bible teaches that the Jews are to a Light upon the nations, not to rule over the nations. Zionism is about the right of the Jews to live in peace in their ancient homeland. On the other hand, Islam is all about preaching the supremacy of Muslims (Surah 98:6 calls all non-Muslims the worst of creatures: https://quran.com/en/al-bayyinah/6 ) & subjugating the world to Islam:
Bro, Israel is carrying out a genocide as we speak, justifying itself in the lie that it's "a Jewish State". It doesn't matter how much "light" you think Judaism can spread to "the nations", a political entity that falsely claims to represent the Jewish people is literally exterminating a nation.
The Bible says many things about Jews @ThinkIsrael but Israel is not Jewish. Yarden Katz is not alone in observing that the Zionist state is, in fact, anti-Jewish. https://youtu.be/7S17Fr8z_Oo
As for the "right of the Jews to live in peace in their ancient homeland", the problem is that the land was already populated before the Zionists invaded. Do you say that someone who claims to be Jewish has the right to take the home of a Palestinian, simply because they claim to be Jewish? @fuller@Mary625@gee8sh@palestine@israel
Funny how the 8% Jewish population of Palestine and the 1/3 Baghdad population of Arab Jews had no problem living in peace. Or even Ashkenazi, who settled in Palestine to escape persecution in Europe, were living in peace. But their desires to not have Israel created were ignored. Zionists even murdered Isräel de Haan to prevent him communicating that wish to the UK. Whose right again?
I wrote a long reply and deleted it because I'm not falling into your excuses. There are now over 14,000 dead Palestinian children and you're trying to excuse that. As if there is any excuse for a genocide or killing children.
We're absolutely done. Go excuse genocide to someone who might buy your crap
What you're saying is a baseless myth. Palestinians are the original inhabitants of the land, and so they where when European colonial migration started in the early XX Century. Defending your land and trying to curtail colonial migration, a migration that has for goal to impoverish you and your community to move them out, can't be called "ethnic cleansing". Get out of here.
There have always been Jews in the land. I can talk of various "colonial" migrations. For instance, how come the language of the land has suddenly changed to Arabic, following an invasion of an Arabic-speaking ruling class?
Third, most of the 700,000 Arabs who left during the 1948 War did so because the Arab leaders told them to so they could get their militaries through and drive the Jewish people out, as this former PLO sniper (whom I met personally) explains in his memoir, and has also been stated by Arab leaders for decades:
Nope. Certainly not most of them (though a non-negligible part). There were various reasons for people to flee.
BTW: No Jew was allowed to live in parts that have become Arab. Not even in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jews lived for centuries.
Areas are fenced off in the West Bank to prevent terrorist attacks. Are you aware that if Jews go to Arab sections in the West Bank, like Ramallah, they'd be killed on sight? Why is it OK for over 2 million Arabs to live on one side of the 1949 line, but it's completely unacceptable for any Jews to live on the other side of the 1949 line?