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Mr. Ben-Yehuda-
It's a nice thing to talk about facts, but it's even better to know what they are.
1- Israel conducted a vicious campaign of terrorism against Arab civilians in 1947 to make the future Israel as Arabenrein as possible. Participating in this terrorist campain were Begin (Deir Yassin), Shamir and Rabin.
2- In 1948, after partition, Israel expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes at gunpoint and dynamited several hundred Palestinian villages.
3- In 1953, Israel participated with the U.S. and Britain in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Mossadegh in Iran. Israel also trained the Savak, the Shah's secret police force, that murdered over 100,000 people and tortured a quarter million more. That is actually a fairly sound justification for Iranian hatred of Israel - although it is impossible to hold any book for the Iranian whack jobs now in power there. It should also be noted that Israel trained the secret police forces for the military dictatorships in Chile, Argentina and Brazil - another 100,000 murdered and another quarter million tortured.
4- In 1956, Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt in order to secure the Suez Canal. In this case, the U.S. did the right thing and stopped this aggression.
5- The 1967 war was not a defensive war, it was a preemptive war of aggression. Israel murdered 34 Americans on the USS Liberty as part of this war.
6- The 1973 Arab war against Israel was a just war - Israel was occupying Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian land. Had the U.S. not intervened on the wrong side in that war, Israels' fascist occupation filth would not be on Syrian and palestinian land today.
7- In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon killing more than 30,000 Lebanese civilians.
8- How can you justify anything to do with the Baruch Goldstein worshipping Nazi filth in Hebron, Kirya Arbat and Amona?
The actual facts are quite different than you portray them. I guess you forgot about these things.
As for ethnic cleansing, stealing someone else's land, building settlements on it in which only Jews may live and then jailing, torturing and murdering the rightful owners is the very definition of ethnic cleansing.
