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durutti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 10:40 AM
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165. Horribly Wrong?
Your post is so horribly wrong I won't even bother with it.

Because Israel Does No Wrong. It contradicts that idea, so it must be wrong.

Just one question, where did Israel magically get all these trained troops?

They'd been trained by the British, and later the United States. The Zionists had many wealthy sponsors, which enabled them to buy modern arms. In contrast, the British (the prime supplier at the time) refused to sell arms to the Arabs.

The Zionists also had a united leadership, whereas the Arabs did not.

What were they doing, military training while in the camps?

It's an insult to the memory of victims of the Holocaust to invoke the Holocaust to defend Zionism, not least because Zionism is a racist ideology.

Zionists worked to keep Jews under Nazi rule from emigrating to America and other countries. They wouldn't accept emigration to anywhere but Palestine. Millions of Jews that could've been accepted by the Allies died, in part because Zionists valued their political agenda more than human life.

In 1941, and again in 1942, the Nazis offered all European Jews transit to Spain, so long as they did not go to Palestine from Spain. They made this offer directly to Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey. Zionist leaders refused.

The Irgun and the Stern Gang infiltrated Jewish Displaced Persons camps after World War II, using violence against fellow Jews to coerce them into emigrating to Palestine. They killed at least 40.

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