Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Israel-Hamas: Norman Finkelstein vs Alan Dershowitz Round 2" video.

  1. ​​ @Sunopeek That's the long and the short of it, yes. Many Palestinians refuse to give up any land for this reason and this probably explains why they reject the US brokered solutions that are periodically put their way. They see no reason why they should compromise. Don't get me wrong, anti-Semitism is an unjustifiable scourge on humanity, but they were basically forced to solve someone else's historical problem ie 'ours' at vast personal expense and enduring misery.
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  2. The brutal truth is is that a new Israel in Palestine was a solution to a problem essentially created by the Western powers at the time, including Russia. Antisemitism was on the march across the already deeply divided European continent in the early 20th Century, particularly in places like Germany and Russia, and many European Jews were looking for an escape route. America, the UK and others were reluctant to take in more Jews than they already had in any great numbers and Mandated Palestine, a recent spoil of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, seemed to be the best way to fulfil the brief and minimise the problem. Domestically, at least. A narrative helped along considerably by Judaism's strong historical connections with Palestine, although there were no significant numbers of Jews in Palestine until the late 1920s. Israel, of course, has subsequently gone on to flourish, but it couldn't ever have done so without continued Western support. The US, I believe, was quite late to the party when it came to supporting Israel as the penny slowly dropped there some time after WW2 quite how useful a friendly outpost could be in a restive oil rich region often largely hostile to America's interests.
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  3. The wonders of collective mass amnesia. But hey, if the media can still keep rolling out Alistair Campbell after Iraq, I see no reason why they can't do the same with Dershowitz after Epstein.
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