The Israel Palestine Thing

Here is a guy who, on his 50th birthday, no less, gives a history of the Jewish population in the land referred to as Palestine and later as Israel. I have come across this history elsewhere for the past several years, but this video is a good summary. For some reason, I have been noticing since this latest war began that people who believe in Israel and its establishment in the land of Palestine in the early 1900's rarely brag about how they had to fight for the land. Many even act as though the Jews just bought the land and it wasn't worth much because it was basically dry desert.

I've heard that argument not only from Jewish sources but from Christian sources and right-wing Conservative sources and talk show hosts.

If you think about it, fighting for land is basically the method used when a new nation of people needs a homeland. Think of how much killing was involved in the formation of the United States of America, all the Indian wars, wars against the English, the French, the Spaniards, the Mexicans. Israel used violent means to win the land of Israel so why don't they do what Americans do, brag about it and about all the heroes who fought for their nation's homeland?

Anyway, this video is an answer to that question:

Israel's History of State Terrorism