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Originally Posted by Jaglavak
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Originally Posted by kirin
Let's also pretend the Suez Crisis, which Israel started, never happened. Interesting perspective of "history" you have there.
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Oh, you mean Israel's response to eight years of Egyptian military blockade of the Red Sea? The one that Egypt actually started? I got your "history" right here. |
Beyond the manner in which the Zionists manipulated the British to win disproportionate gains at the end of the Mandate, they then proceeded to massacre and expel (ethnically cleanse) Palestinians by the hundreds of thousands in 1948. Egypt and other Arab states didn't recognize Israel's illegal borders that it created for itself, and Egypt had territorial control of the Suez and Straits of Tiran. So they closed it.
As a matter of pragmatism, I accept Israel's political legitimacy and am not interested in litigating that. But there has never been a moment in Israel's history when they haven't illegally occupied, illegally expanded/settled, or economically strangled Palestinians. It's no different now. They're illegally expanding settlements in the West Bank as we speak. They're making Gaza unlivable, which pretty much makes it clear what they aim to do with Palestinians there, which is why Egypt and other neighbors refuse to take the refugees in. It's not because Arab neighbors are indifferent; it's because they know they'll be stuck with the refugees permanently. They will never be allow by Israel to return, who will annex their new territory, just like they always have. Israel always had its design on a much bigger Israel beyond that which was in the Mandate, and they've tried to get it through sheer violence and brutality.