Toward the end of WWII, as the allies were approaching Berlin, the Nazis devoted nearly every resource to murdering the last Jews in Europe. They put this goal ahead even of their war effort. Because this was the Nazi raison d’etre, their obsession, the eradication of world Jewry.
Similarly, the Iranian regime makes the survival of Hezbollah a requisite because with Hezbollah gone, it will be much more difficult to eradicate the Jewish State.
The Iranian regime is the restoration of the Third Reich, with an Islamic twist. It must be dismantled and quashed, humiliated and thoroughly discredited as an ideological force so its acolytes are left reeling and disabused of the notion that extermination of the Jewish People is a worthy and attainable goal.
@Reuters Reuters has an unhealthy obsession with Israel and the Jewish People. Their reporting staff and number of articles published are 14x anywhere else in the world, per capita. Reminds me of another Jew-obsessed regime.
@DavidBahry@Reuters Nope. To clarify, I'm a student of history who understands that the Palestinian Arabs have only and forever wanted to exterminate the Jews of the Levant. Any other questions?
Takes Reuters 8 paragraphs into its story on a UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon by a mortar shell to note that his death resulted from "indirect fire coming from north of the Litani River."
No mention of Hezbollah.
Unbelievable so-called 'journalism'.
Christian claims certainly precede those of the Muslims but are inferior to those of the Jews who came before, were granted the land in international law in the 1920s, purchased and worked the land in the 1930s, defended the land in the 1940s, and have been sacrificing their lives for the land for the last 78 years.
Hey Andy, when the war ends and the Palestinian terror groups have finally been handled, go visit the Jerusalem museum and take a gander at the JEWISH relics that go back thousands of years testifying to the indigeneity of the Jews in the region.
The Jews are the only extant People that still trace their ancestry to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. It's their land -- by virtue of legacy, international law, blood, treasure and toil. That IS morality and legality.
@eeflanders2009@Reuters The "Palestinians" in Gaza emigrated there in multiple waves from Egypt and Arabia. The most common surname in Gaza is al-Masri ("The Egyptian"). Yasir Arafat was Egyptian. You don't know what you're talking about. Really.
Jews don't "occupy" their land, land that was bought and built with the blood, treasure and toil of their ancestors going back 3,000 years. And a second time in the modern era. Any more than the Lakota "occupy" their land in the Dakotas. Please try calling them "dolt" for defending their ancient claims to the land and we'll see how much hair you retain on you head.
The indigenous population was/is the Jews, 1,600 years before the first Arab Muslim invader step foot in the Levant. The Arabs are indigenous to ARABia.
The Arab-Muslim Empire controls 5 million square miles across 22 countries today, thanks largely to centuries of invasion, conquest, ethnic cleansing, forced conversions and colonization.
The "Palestinians" are more than welcome to return to any of these lands, and should so, immediately. They won't get the last 8,000 square miles of land reserved for the Jews in international law.
The local Arabs ("Palestinians") were granted CIVIL and RELIGIOUS rights by the Mandate, never political rights to a sovereign state in Palestine. This was reserved for the Jews.
Yes, it was before UNGA 181 (Partition), which was only a recommendation by the General Assembly and carries ZERO weight in international law. Partition was also rejected by the Arabs, who decided to wage a war of annihilation against the Jews.
The Mandate applied to all of Palestine, or what was left of it after the British illegally handed 77% of the land to the Hashemite Arabs (Jordan today).
The Arabs never agreed or accepted ANY border for Israel -- because they wanted to eradicate it.
There was no "West Bank" in 1922. It was a colonial construct created by Jordan and British Arabists in 1948 to try to justify the theft of the 3,000 year-old Jewish ancestral homeland of Judea & Samaria.
Jerusalem was a part of the Mandate and has only ever been the capital of one sovereign state, a Jewish one.
@joschein@Reuters Which has absolutely nothing to do with the validity of the claims to the land granted to the Jewish People by the Mandate, resolved by The League and grandfathered across to Articles 75-80 of the UN Charter. Nice try though. Perhaps next time, you can cite your fortune cookie.
Ignoring what exactly? There's NOTHING in the mandate that called for an Arab-Muslim State in Palestine.
And the local Arabs ("Palestinians") didn't own the land. The giant papier-mâché keys they like to wave around notwithstanding.
Learn some history before you humiliate yourself in a public space.