[lehighguy]

1. Zionism was not a response to the holocaust but a direct offshoot of 19th century racial-supremacist colonialism. Israel remains a proud and determined ethnically supremacist state, unabashedly pledging perpetual adherence to the racist ideology of its founders.

So what, most ethnically monotone countries are like that. Try not being Japanese in Japan and see how far you get. Arabs with Isreal citizenship can own businesses, run for office, vote, and generally not be stoned in the street just for being a different race. How would a Jew fail in any Arab country in the world?

2. Israel was born through an act of mass ethnic cleansing, precipitated by massacres, indiscriminate killings and rape, and throughout its history has been a serial cross-border aggressor.

Isreal was born of a 1947 partition by the UN. Isreal accepted it, and Arabs didn't. There was a war where lots of people died and were misplaced. If the Arabs hadn't invaded there would be no war and no one would have died.

3. Israel has killed more innocent civilians than all Arab terrorists in history and terrorism, defined as the deliberate use and threat of violence against civilians to accomplish political ends, has been a continuous Israeli practice since its founding and before. The worst offenders (Begin, Shamir, Sharon) rank among Israel's most powerful and respected leaders.

There is a difference between targeting civilians and civilians getting caught in the cross fire. Isreal just wants peace, it goes after terrorists who surrond themselves with women and children for protection and to raise international backlash. If the Hamas doesn't want to have peoples houses bombed they have to stop operating out of peoples houses.

4. Israel has never accepted that the Arabs of Palestine are entitled to the same national right that Israel considers absolute, inviolable and even sacred for Jews: a national home in the land where they and their ancestors were born.

They did. They accepted the 1947 partition. Palestine was denied by Jordan and Eqypt from 1947-1967, not Isreal. Since then Isreal has made numerous attempts to have a Palestinian state, but the terrorism never stops. The reason is simple, the Palestinians don't want a two state solution. They want every Jew in the middle east dead. Isreal gave them Gaza and they use it to launch missles at them.