Re: Has support for Israel become the new GOP litmus test?
I never said that you said you didn't want the Palestinians to return to their homes. Here's what you did say
MildSteel said
You responded
Here it is right here
http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/220418-has-support-israel-become-new-gop-litmus-test-22.html#post1064486057
Jews in Israel have a valid reason to not allow Palestinian Muslims return to Israel. The reason is if they do Israel would not longer be a Jewish nation and no longer be the lifeboat to escape to for Jews around the world.
Shortly after WWII, Britain proposed that a tiny area of that region be for Jews, and 100% of everywhere else be for "exclusively" for Arabs. The Jewish Council immediately agreed - noting that area was smaller than present day Israel. However, Palestinians rioted demanding Jews have no land and instead should be evicted. So Britain withdrew the partition plan.
As Britain prepared to pull out, the military of 4 Muslim nations along with the Palestinians prepared to attack. Jews declared at all Jews in Israel are required join the defense organization - women included.
With British heavy equipment and the Jews having essentially none, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, together with expeditionary forces from Iraq, Palestinians, Yemen and the Arab Defense League, plus volunteers from Pakistan and the Sudan attacked the Jews. The British put up a blockaide against any equipment reaching the Jews.
USA's Truman and Russia's Stalin recognized the nation of Israel. Eventually Britain lifted the blockaid.
Remembering their betrayal in Chamberlain's "Land For Peace" deal, Czechoslovakia provided the Jews 25 Avia S-199 fighters (An inferior version of the Messerschmitt ME-109 ), 200 heavy machine guns, 5,021 light machine guns, 24,500 rifles, and 52 million rounds of ammunition, enough to equip all units, but short of heavy arms. The Jews also has essentially smuggled in Czechoslovakia 25 Avia S-199 fighters (An inferior version of the Messerschmitt ME-109 ), 200 heavy machine guns, 5,021 light machine guns, 24,500 rifles, and 52 million rounds of ammunition, enough to equip all units, but short of heavy arms. The airborne arms smuggling missions from Czechoslovakia were codenamed Operation Balak.
Unknown, the Jews has sent up covert light arms manufacturing: producing 3 million 9 mm bullets, 150,000 Mills grenades, 16,000 submachine guns (Sten Guns) and 210 three-inch (76 mm) mortars", along with a few "Davidka" mortars. While the mortars were so inaccurate as to have almost no value, they were notably loud.
Believing they were essentially attacking civilian Jews armed only with handguns and rifles, the furious and organized nature of Jewish resistance along with making what little equipment they had seem far more than it was proved highly demoralizing to the attackers who were suffering far more casualties than the Jews. This contradicted the claims of Arab generals that there would be essentially no real resistance.
After the first invasion, arms continued to flow to the Jews - again primarily thru the Czechs including more fighter aircraft, but also British who were sympathetic to the Jews secretly turned over tanks and other heavy equipment to the Jews.
This was not the last attack and invasion against Israel. Israel can not allow Palestinians to return or Israel would cease to exist as a Jewish nation. Israel can not give by land obtained in the war they didn't start as it is an necessary defensive zone. All the words anyone rages doesn't change those 2 obvious facts.