I’m not making assumptions. I’m reflecting their own openly stated sentiments and thoughts. I’m stating the animating principles in their political charters and in their man on the street interviews. And the surest sign of someone who is unfamiliar with history is the ‘learn history’ line. Let’s quiz each other right now on this conflict and see who knows what. I say this conflict started with the Mandates undelivered upon promises to two people. Ot stoked the hopes and ambitions of both Arabs and Jews. The conflict grew with the birth of Pan Arab nationalism in the early 20th century and a few ambitious Arabs who were power lusters (namely the Mufti of Jerusalem) who fomented division and hatred to solidify their own power. It grew more malignant when pan Arab nationalism found an ally in Nazi germany. When civil war with the mandate failed to lose international support for a Jewish state in the League of Nations and finally ended in a UN resolution creating a two state partition (which the Arabs rejected BECAUSE of their own Arabic desire to form an Arab federation) pan Arab nationalism found an ally in Soviet Russia and Marxist doctrine. When an Egyptian grifter picked up that banner (replete with all the trendy thinking re colonialism and indigenousness) and it finally merged with fundamentalist religion… a deeper more irrational and intransigent ideology was born and the seeds for perpetual conflict was born. The Palestinian identity was born in that fusion of Marxism and radicalized with jihadism. There is NOTHING constructive or even historically true in the movement. It is and will always be a giant, power lusting grift that oppresses more Muslims than anyone else. And you have the balws to scream Islamophobia because YOURE scared to critique a religion with this sick and Violent element to it. So? WTF is wrong with you? Show me where I’m wrong and you’re right?
Mark Pellegrino
