Still have a closed mind Z?
I was about to ask why your mind is so closed. Once I was like you and fell for media savvy biased bullcrap. Then I actually did some indepth reading. Someday, your mind will open away from this "Pro-Palestinian Freedom Fighter" crap.
Many sources I reference are Jewish and/or Israeli. I often find them to be less subjective than Western sources. B'Tselem is among the best sources of information regarding this conflict.
B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
This is what Im talking about. What you really mean is you find these sources re-inforce your already held beliefs. A "Best Source" is one that tells you that you are correct and you don't need to do any further reading. I went through this anti-Israel phase in my youth. Try reading sites that are direct opposition to your views. Seriously give it a try.
Most of the people fighting with the Nazis were Germans, not Arabs. Most of the people rounding up and gassing Jews were Europeans, not Arabs. Arabs fought on both sides in WW II. Most Palestinian Arabs stayed out of WW II refusing to support either side.
Agian, not true. Most of the people fighting with the Nazi's were not Germans though they were the largest minority. Austrians, Italians, French, Slavic peoples, Romanian, Arab forces,
Anyone from a nation with strong anti-semite beliefs tended to flock to the Nazi cause by the end of the war. There were American's fighting for the Nazi's too. This idea that anti-semitism came AFTER WWII is revisionist.
The 1929 Palestinian Riots where the Jews were expelled from Gaza (and forbidden from returning by the British) was Pre-WWII as but one example.
Starvation as a result of crop failure or natural catastrophe is one thing. Using food and medicine (or the lack of it) as a weapon is a crime against humanity... even when Israel does it.
They are not starving them of anything. No one is forced to put their own lives at risk to help a hostile force. If Hamas is going to run the Gaza strip AND launch an aggressive war, it needs to have it own source of food and medicine. Allowing your people to starve and die to fuel your war effort is a crime against humanity. Before one launches an aggressive war, one is expected to have stockpiles of food and medicine and should surrender if they run out.
Why do you insist on holding Israel to a different standard than us? You do know in every major war we have been in, as Canadians, we have used blockades and prevented outside aid (even food and medicine) from breaching battle lines.
Israel even still provides food and medicine for free, to an unoccupied hostile territory. They do act better than we do in Canada.
Fundamental human rights are fundamental human rights. These rights are not dependant on who you democratically elect.
And no fundemental human rights have been breached. I think you have a problem understanding a human right, as in you have the right to ensure you are not deprived of your own food, and are instead trying to imply a duty on Israel to give them that food.
A fundemental right is something you cannot be prevented from doing, not something you can force someone else to do for you.
I have a fundemental right to pursue happiness, I do not have a fundemental right to force you to make me happy.
The link I provided regarding a peaceful tolerant Ottoman empire which welcomed and accepted Jews came from an Israeli Education website: Israel Science and Technology Homepage
Turkey was a safe destination for Jews during WW II. Follow this link and keep an open mind: Brief History of Turkish Jews
Today, Turkey is a popular Jewish tourist destination.
Yes, the Ottoman Empire did welcome Jews into the Empire, as citizens (as much as Arabs were in the Turkic empire anyways). Yet you still keep throwing around claims about "zionism" in the early 20th century as some evil invading army illegal stealing land.
Not as the series of legal immigrants and settlers being allowed to settle.
Perhaps you have forgotten that at the exact same time Canada was giving away the land of Native to settlers (for free) to encourage them to build up the area. Are you saying all Canadians should leave the country if their ancestors were legal immigrants?
You are full of serious double standards in your logic that you apply to Israel.
Someday you will open your mind, learn more about the situation and really become alot more grounded in the reality of the situation, not in the grande PR claims of the groups involved.