gwax23,
I appreciate your posts and I do agree that no Arab whether they are Muslim or Christian deserves to live in the Land of Israel. Unfortunately, I came across an article by Murray Rothbard, and he has the most atrocious lies about the Israel-Arab conflict in which Jews are obviously the most victimized.
The article is War Guilt in the Middle East.
Rothbard claims that
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Can you please refute these lies by the self-hating Jew, Rothbard? I would really appreciate it.
I like Rothbard on a lot of things but here as you mentioned I believe he was wrong.
There was a three way civil war going on between the jews Arabs and British in the area. Bad things happened on all sides, that is the face of war. Blaming solely the jews for any negative outcomes shows his bias.
The Deir Yassin incident which he mentions was tragic and the Israeli Government/Jewish agency apologized for it despite this apology being disregarded by the Jordanians. Rothbard claiming this single incident discredits Jewish self determination is ridiculous since far worse incidents were perpetrated by the Arab side which he fails to mention. Such as the Hebron massacres, the Hadassah medical convoy massacre, the Kfar Etzion massacre (more jews died in this than in Deir Yassin), Safed Porgrom, the Tiberias Massacre are among a few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Safed_pogrom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Tiberias_massacre
Many of these happened before the civil war and attacked some of the oldest jewish communities in the world many of which where not even Zionist. Yet Rothbard doesnt mention any of this. Further unlike Deir Yassin no arab institution or organization or government apologized for them, quite the opposite the openly and actively encouraged further violence against the Jews in their home countries and beyond.
Further this doesnt include any Massacres committed against jews Outside of Palestine in the neighboring Arab countries which triggered the mass flight of jewish refugees that I mentioned earlier. Refugees who alone outnumbered the Palestinian refugees yet rarely receive mention and have no official support from the UN unlike the Palestinians who have an agency directed specifically to helping them.
He downplays the invasion of Jewish populated territory, territory that was going to be awarded to the new found state as per the UN partition plan. The Arabs invaded this territory and LOST. The land the nascent state of Israel won defending itself it won justly. The fact that different standards are applied to Israel in this case show the hypocrisy.
He also claims that the UN brokered truces hurt the Arabs when in fact it prevented them from being further overrun by the Jewish forces.The Israelis had the initiative and could of pushed onto Jerusalem and the west bank and beyond had it not been for the Truces. So him saying the brokered cease fires only hurt the arabs is another fallacy.
Lastly he trys to claim that israel broke the UN provisions since it did not adhere to the economic portions of it and the internationalization of Jerusalem but this is the biggest lie of all.
First the jews ACCEPTED the UN partition plan in its entirety. The arabs rejected it and launched their invasion. Claiming israel should be bound to have an economic union with countries that didnt recognize it and wanted to destroy it after the war is absurd. He also fails to mention that the Arabs ignored ALL provisions of the partition and continued to Occupy land that was supposed to go for a Palestinian state including occupying the vast majority of Jerusalem. So another lie on his part. Egypt and Jordan occupied supposed Palestinian land for 2 decades and the world said nothing. Neither sought the establishment of a Palestinian state during that time.
He was very biased on this issue and not a credible source regarding the conflict in anyway.