Stll relevant: The General's Son

I received a very typical Twitter response to my earlier article about the high life expectancy of Israeli Arabs: "Does that legitimise occupation?"

I've noted in the past that many people, when looking at Israel, wear "occupation glasses." Nothing else matters. If the information they receive is bad, then it is the "occupation"'s fault, if it is good then it is being used to divert attention from the "occupation."

The Israel-haters think that they have a slam dunk when mentioning "occupation" - it is their shorthand for repression, injustice, and colonialism.

For some reason Israel doesn't do a good enough job when answering this. So here is a short response that works wonders:


If there was a Palestinian state, there would be no "occupation."

And the ONLY reason there is no Palestinian state is because the Palestinian leadership has rejected every offer for one.

Every time.

Pointing this irrefutable fact out does a number of things. It shows that Israel doesn't want to control another people, it shows that Israel wants peace, and it shows that Palestinians prefer "occupation" to statehood.

Moreover, it puts the Israel-hater on the defensive, forced to stutter that the peace offers weren't good enough or whatever. To which the response is....then the "occupation" cannot really be so bad, can it?

When forced to answer this simple observation, the Israel-haters show that they don't want a state either. They will say that a state without Jerusalem or without "return" of "refugees" - not to Palestine, but to Israel - is not worth it.

Showing that they don't really care about "occupation" but about destroying Israel.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Zionists said they would accept a state the size of a handkerchief. They accepted a UN partition plan that wrested Jerusalem from them. They desperately needed a state for the Jews to live in without fear of being murdered.

Palestinians, however, don't have any sense of urgency in their supposed quest for a state. They are willing to wait decades.

If that is true, then they are the ones who are prolonging 'occupation," not Israel.

sassy wrote:

How much more ‘evidence’ do they need?

The thing is Sassy you cannot EDUCATE the brainwashed.

As the saying goes

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!!!!!!!!!

SEXY MAMA wrote:

sassy wrote:

How much more ‘evidence’ do they need?

The thing is Sassy you cannot EDUCATE the brainwashed.

As the saying goes

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!!!!!!!!!

How much more evidence do you need

The only problem here is one that has gone on since the conception of Islam

Squatters thinking they have right to lands they conquered

The Arabs

Didge wrote:

SEXY MAMA wrote:


How much more ‘evidence’ do they need?

The thing is Sassy you cannot EDUCATE the brainwashed.

As the saying goes

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!!!!!!!!!

How much more evidence do you need

The only problem here is one that has gone on since the conception of Islam

Squatters thinking they have right to lands they conquered

The Arabs

Another one of your tactics!!!!!!

Changing goal posts again when you cannot answer the facts!

SEXY MAMA wrote:

Didge wrote:


How much more evidence do you need

The only problem here is one that has gone on since the conception of Islam

Squatters thinking they have right to lands they conquered

The Arabs

Another one of your tactics!!!!!!

Changing goal posts again when you cannot answer the facts!

That is historical facts

How do you think Arabic became the language in the Middle East?

Colonialism through Arabization

Changing goal posts

When you have no answer

SEXY MAMA wrote:Changing goal posts

When you have no answer

You mean you cannot answer

Where was the genesis of the Arabs sexy?