You are "splitting hairs" here.Originally Posted by Vesh
Do you think that the Palestineans in the West Bank and Gaza were not fighting alongside the other Arab nations who attacked Israel? They were given the West Bank in 1948 but refused to organize themselves because they wanted the whole land and so were part of the attack. They lost. I think you have succumed to liberal media interpretation of history on this point. This conflict is heavily affected by media as it molds the opinions of generations. Peoples memories are short.
The moment that Israel's spokespeople and friends abroad began talking about balancing Palestinian rights to statehood and Israel's need for security, it started to lose the media war.
Rights can only be balanced in the public eye with other rights, not pleas for safety. If the Palestinians portray themselves as the only ones with legitimate rights to disputed territories, and Israel repeatedly fails to offer an effective rejoinder, then why won't more people consider the Palestinians in the right?
And once they've gotten editors and church leaders to think of Israel as an "occupier" and inherently in the wrong, then all Palestinian tactics — even murder — become legitimate, and all Israeli countermeasures become illegitimate.
'We await the launch of a third Palestinian intifada," the head of Israeli army intelligence predicted.