Letters to the Editor
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To the Zionists on this forum
There is so much spin when it comes to the history of Palestine/Israel about how the Arabs "attacked", how the Palestinians did not exist as a state or how they rejected generous peace offers etc.
To get past the spin to core of the conflict consider the following basic facts:
1- The Zionists' goal was to create a Jewish state
2- In 1917, Jews were less than 7% of the population
3- The only way to create a Jewish state - as even Zionist Israeli historians such as Benny Morris have documented - was to expel the Palestinians.
4- Since people don't normally leave their homes voluntarily the only way to do it was using massacres and intimidation.
You can say all you want to try to justify and whitewash what happened. The bottom line is Israel was created as a result of a campaign of pre-planned ethnic cleansing. Benny Morris expressed regret that the ethnic cleansing wasn't completed in 1947-48 (even though 700,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 towns and villages were destroyed) and indicated while Israel couldn't continue this campaign today (because the world wouldn't allow it not because it was wrong!) it would perhaps do this at a more opportune time!
This is the ideology and country you defend!