While we’re thinking straight, let’s also remember that the West had no right to slice up Arab land and hand some to the Zionists. Palestine going from about 25,000 Jews to some millions by 1947? That is an invasion. The UN accords the right of self defense to a people against invaders. So, let’s not confuse Palestinians resisting expulsion and occupation with people who crash planes into tall buildings.
The Muslims did not always hate the Jews. When Calip Omar conquered Jerusalem from the Christians, we permitted Jews to move back to the city. When Spain expelled the Jews, the Muslims gave them refuge. Now, the Zionists have poisoned the well with their oppressionand “peace” between an Israel and a truncated Palestine sliced up by Israeli military roads and Palestinians living in misery and passing daily under Israeli guns at roadblocks and checkpoints is a delusion. There is no justice in this and it will not survive. The only alternative to perpetual war is for the Zionists to Exodus from Israel. All the US needs to do is stop sending $3 billion annually to Israel to pay for weapons to kill Palestinians, and issue immigrant visas to Israelis to come and live in security in the US. My wife is Russian and her Russian Jewish friends are trying to get back to Russia. They say an exodus has already begun in the aftermath of the mostrous attacks on Lebanon. The US and the world cannot afford the crimes and cruelty imposed on the Palestinians to satisfy Zionist nostalgia about King David. The Iranian president is right about one thing: If Americans want the Zionists to have a good place to live, we should provide it in America instead of having supported the Zionists to solve their problems at the expense of the suffering of the Palestinians.