I feel really bad for Israel. No people have done more for the Arab refugees than the Jews. Nowhere in the Middle East do Arabs live freer, more productive lives than in Israel. Their thanks has been in the form unrelenting, unending terrorism and death.
Having to queue up for hours at a time to have your papers scrutinised in order to pass a checkpoint just to go to school or work, when the checkpoints are open for a total of less than an hour a day, if the teenage soldier with the big gun ‘remembers’ to open it at all?
I feel really bad for the Palestinians. You’d think that a people who has been discriminated against and that has suffered so much at the hands of others would be a little slower to mistreat another people in such a way. Palestinians regularly die because they cannot get through the check points to a doctor. Houses are crushed, sometimes with people still in them, the people are forced to live in squalor reminicent of the Warsaw Ghetto, the slightest infractions are met with unecessarily harsh reprisals directed at entire towns. I don’t support terrorism but I understand why these people hate their oppressors and are fighting. They don’t have an army in the regular sense so they’re fighting back the only way they can. There’s nothing as dangerous as a man who has nothing left to lose.
That’s why Arab Israelis have full political voting rights and are represented in the Knesset, right?