Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

Plus, without a Pope John XXlll, would many Catholics affect a friendly attitude towards Jews? Call me paranoid about insincerity!

Christians in Israel and Palestine fear an escalation of violence against them after a spate of vandalism in Jerusalem churches by hardline Jewish nationalists ahead of Pope Francis's visit this month.

Earlier this week vandals wrote "Death to Arabs and Christians" in Hebrew on the Vatican's Notre Dame centre in Jerusalem's Old City and on Thursday night offensive graffiti was written on a wall close to the Romanian Orthodox church.

Pope Francis is due to stay at the Notre Dame centre during his two-day trip to Jerusalem and Bethlehem from 24 to 26 May.

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The Israelis claim that anti-Semitism is behind the boycott, but they don’t see the real reason: the occupation of Palestinian lands and the subjugation of the Palestinians over the years.

Lillian Laskin, Los Angeles

Good reply in furthering understanding past some of our inabilities (me too) to comprehend Advocate on all this.

I don't post here often but do read from time to time, trying to catch up. I'm not anti Palestinians/their beliefs nor Israelis of different religions, as people, but I'm against some behaviors on both sides.. have long been against the illegal settlements. Oh, and against american behaviors over some decades now. I started out years ago quite the opposite, but stopped thinking just one way when the settlements started and then went on.

I'm talking re several pages back.

Good reply in furthering understanding past some of our inabilities (me too) to comprehend Advocate on all this.

BTW, Israel went nearly two decades essentially without setting foot in the WB and Gaza. But the Pals rewarded Israel for this by making hundreds of attacks on Israel and its people.

Irgun
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The Irgun (Hebrew: אִרְגּוּן; full title: הָאִרְגּוּן הַצְּבָאִי הַלְּאֻמִּי בְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל Ha-Irgun Ha-Tzvai Ha-Leumi be-Eretz Yisrael, lit. "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel"), was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah (Hebrew: "Defense", הגנה). When the group broke from the Haganah it became known as the Haganah Bet (Hebrew: literally "Defense 'B' " or "Second Defense", הגנה ב), or alternatively as haHaganah haLeumit (ההגנה הלאומית) or Ha'ma'amad (המעמד‎).[1] Irgun members were absorbed into the Israel Defense Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. The Irgun is also referred to as Etzel (אצ"ל), an acronym of the Hebrew initials, or by the abbreviation IZL.

The Irgun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. According to Howard Sachar, "The policy of the new organization was based squarely on Jabotinsky's teachings: every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state".[2]

Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre, carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948.

The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization or organization which carried out terrorist acts.[3][4] In particular the Irgun was branded a terrorist organisation by Britain,[5] the 1946 Zionist Congress[6] and the Jewish Agency.[7] The Irgun believed that any means necessary to establish the Jewish State of Israel, including terrorism, was justifiable.[8]

The Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party.[9] Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.

So, you want the Brits to take it back by mandate?

I have read long reviews of books by some non-Netanyahu-like israeli Jews (I rarely capitalize religions but in this case that would be taken as a jerk attitude) and I don't know that they won't eventually have more sway. Part of the Netanyahu sway is money. At the same time, I don't take Palestinians as all without sanity.

That is not true. The period between 50 and 67 was the most peaceful ever for Israel. There were very few terrorist attacks back then.

The Arab-Israeli Wars (1948-2006)

Go to this link to look at each one of the following.
http://www.jcrcboston.org/focus/support/israels-history/the-arab-israeli-wars.html
To learn about the Arab-Israeli Wars:

The War of Independence (1947-49)

The Sinai Compaign (1956)

The Six- Day War (1967)

The War of Attrition (1968-70)

The Yom Kippur War (1973)

Operation Peace for Galilee (1982)

The Gulf War (1991)

Lebanon War II (2006)

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I guess one could leave out the "fellow"?

Why can't one accept the less than pleasing traits of one's specific group?

What traits?

Yet the actual people who perpetrated the holocaust were protestant, in their majority. Also, a country like the US, with a strong protestant majority, refused to accept german jewish refugees in the 30's... so your memory of the holocaust is partial.