It is all Israel's fault
Reader comment on item: [Michael Oren's] "Six Days of War"

Submitted by Nadir Ahmed (United States), Jun 7, 2002 at 15:48

The terrorism which the Israelis are facing is the terrible price they have to pay for invading Arab lands and chasing out of their homes into refugee camps. Though terrorism is wrong, this is a self inflicted wound. There is a terrible bias in favor of Israel in America - on one hand, they ask Palestinians to condemn terrorism (which they should), but, they do not show the same enthusiasm in cornering Jewish leaders to condemn occupation, nor do they ask them to accept that the Palestinians 'have the right to return' to their land.

If there was a foreign people who migrated to California and took it over because they think that God wants them to do so, Americans would be fighting that occupation to their utmost...

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