blueflame1 wrote:ican, "Israel's enemies have waged war on Israel since its declaration of independence in 1948." Your statement leaves out a bit of well documented history. The expulsion of the Palestinians.
http://www.robincmiller.com/pales2.htm
Yes it is well documented that the Palestinians refused to live in a Jewish state, refused to be partitioned, and the other Arabs refused to acknowledge or respect UN Resolution 181. It was not Zionism but a war initiated by the Arabs (well documented on this thread), some of which adopted a solution for the "Jewish Question" as had been adopted in Europe, or specifically extermination.
Had there been no war, there would have been no refugees. The Jews defended themselves and expelled the belligerent Palestinians which naturally resulted in flight by even non-belligerent Palestinians. And the Jews are now naturally reluctant to admit a large number of people who are on record as wanting the Israeli state to be exterminated. The Palestinian leadership has systematically rejected the UN partition plan or other suggested partitions since that time.
Palestinians who have continued to live peacefully in Israel have been allowed to live in peace. Those who continue to wage war on Israel receive severe retaliation. Otherwise, Arabs who are good Israeli citizens not only live in peace but prosper nicely. Racism does not appear to be exercised by the Jews other than that Israel was created to be a Jewish state. They can hardly be condemned for that when the world approves of all their neighbors being Islamic states.
A parallel example to the expulsion of belligerent Palestinians from Israel is post World War II Czechoslovakia expelling ethnic Germans who had been Czech citizens living in the Sudetensland because they were a threat to the Czechs. Nobody claimed that was racism or condemned it as some sort of 'ism. The Czechs saw it as self defense and implemented it for that reason.
