re: #21 Petero1818

You were doing so well and then lost me at “But Israel is an equal impediment to Palestinian freedom.”

I do not think that is true in any way shape or form. Unless you ascribe to the conspiracies and blood libels. In fact Israel started by immediately recognizing the Arab population as an official ethnic and religious minority. The Jewish leadership made detailed plans for the establishment of an Arabic-language press, the improvement of health in the Arab sector, the incorporation of Arab officials in the government, and the integration of Arabs within the police and the ministry of education.

All in all, the opposite of “impediment to Palestinian freedom.”

In 1947, David Ben-Gurion, who would soon become prime minister, told his Labor Party, “In our state there will be non-Jews as well — and all of them will be equal citizens; equal in everything without any exception; that is: the state will be their state as well.”

Again, the opposite of “impediment to Palestinian freedom.”

Israel is not the oppressor of Arab/Muslim Palestinians.