Palestinian Violence Overstated, Israeli Violence Understated?

When I wrote on a Mulsim blog: “Perception is reality”, the reaction was 110% in agreement. Amazed agreement.
Humanity’s greatest gift is the ability to imagine. Man’s greatest weakness is the compulsion to pretend. Of course, therefore, we are all screwed-up. Our greatest virtue being a few DNA codes different then our greatest downfall.
And the same exact holds true for reality. A few false assumptions, a few unfair inferences, a few botched facts and the entire picture appears opposite. Which is why we argue over the Hebrew / Arab conflict to infinity and beyond. There is no reconciling the facts because people flat out refuse to believe them. Thank God there are Trolls to straiten everything out.
Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo was masterful. Because he came with precious little to give the Arabs, lectured them for an hour and left with a standing ovation. Which only reinforces what I just said.
Before continuing, for the record, some of the zealot Jews who are responsible for the anti-civilian violence being described in the article should be condemned for their actions and their attitudes. They are ugly.
But I disagree with a primary conclusion reached by the article, namely that there has been a quantum shift in affinities among US voters--as result of the recent actions of Israel. The Troll submits that the change in administration had inevitable consequences. Namely, that the gravity field of support for Israel has flipped. During the Clinton Administration, the most prolific critics of Israel came from the far right. Buchanan, Novak, even the Rev. Billy Graham took swipes at Tel Aviv. The bulk of opposition to the USA intervening in the Balkans also came from the far right, including Dick Cheney.
The Terror bombing at the Murah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the work of right-wing para-mercenaries. Because we are basically a two party system, the “status quo” goes from being popular to unpopular when our President changes.
Hammas also did a quite good job of drawing Israel into a military action in Gaza from which they could purposefully sacrifice their local civilian population in order to gain political momentum. Contemptible but effective.
The article states:
“First, though it's somewhat less one-sided than the story that prevailed during the George W. Bush years, it is far from impartial, which means the U.S. still cannot act as an even-handed broker for peace in the region.”
Yet, it does not elaborate further. And for very good reason. Such an accusation can only hold its moment as a bumper-sticker. Here is the more detailed and factual reality:
There are presently about 6-million Arabs residing in several countries outside of Israel and outside of the Palestinian Terr., in places such as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere. Of this 6-million population, about 5.8-million were born in the countries where they now reside. Of these 5.8-million, zero [REPEAT ZERO] have acquired citizenship in the countries where they were born. None enjoy basic human rights. They are the ONLY population in world history who have had “refugee” status handed down from their parents, grand-parents and even great-grandparents. Even as refugees, the United Nations regulations require that they be afforded the right to REMAIN where they are. The various Arab countries have continuously denied this population that legal right for 60 years ongoing.
The longstanding Arab demand is that this population be relocated into Israel as citizens.
That is the issue which ended the 2000 peace negotiations.
Sadly, there is not much to discuss. If, proverbially, your next-door neighbor demanded to marry your wife, why bother discussing the height of your hedges with him? He will only say: “Thank you for trimming down your hedges, now, where’s the bitch”?
We hear about stopping construction of new Hebrew homes in the West Bank. Perhaps that would not be such a bad idea IF THE ARABS WERE NOT INSISTING ON DISOLVING THE NATION OF ISRAEL ENTIRELY.
The article:
“ . . .and if anyone insists on keeping score, Israel's violence, official and unofficial, outweighs the violence coming from the Palestinians.”
Another unsubstantiated false accusation. Israel is under no obligation to match the casualties which the Arabs have brought on themselves by their continued engaging in widespread “human shielding”, which is a blatant violation of international law.
In the West Bank, the figurehead, Abbas has far less actual power then the local war-lords. In Gaza, the Islamic fundamentalist outlaw regime Hammas has unlawfully abrogated their obligations under the Olso treaties and they have only one singular goal. To obliterate Israel. Of the remaining 6-million Palestinian-Arabs, they have no voice whatsoever and must accede to the wills of the national leaderships in the various Arab countries where they were born but have no rights. The issues we most often hear bandied about have, in reality, nearly nothing to do with the outcome of this conflict. They are, at best, window-dressing.
The article sucked.

Cartoonmayhem:
More fortune-cookies. Lacking basis in fact and without historical merit.
You rhetorically asked:
“Could it be because for the last 62 years Israel has been acting in bad faith with her Arab neighbours? Who has invaded who?”
Answer: Inaccurate on every count. The political conflict between Mid East Arabs and Hebrews did NOT begin 62 years ago. The modern episode began after World War One, some 90 or so years ago. It began upon the birth of all the Arab nations we are familiar with today, with the exception of a much smaller Iraq and Egypt, which is really North African--to be precise. These nations were created as an outcropping of the treaties which ended WW1. Supporters of the Palestinian-Arabs (in your specific case, “anti-Israelis”) generally disregard the settled international law which occurred following WW1 and before WW2 and instead, they ignorantly pretend that the controversy started after the Holocaust, which it DID NOT.
Please have a read at this link:
http://english.katif.net/index.php?sub=2&id=1824
For the record, I do NOT agree with the conclusion reached by the article’s author that ALL of historical “Palestine” (24,000 sq-miles including all of Jordan) was exclusively reserved for the future Jewish homeland/nation. Such would be ridiculous in the light of the Arab populations residing therein. The pertinent wording says: “in Palestine”. The Supreme Allied powers (US, UK, France and Japan) had the sole authority (and legal responsibility) to draw these borders. They did not do so and England arbitrarily gave the lion’s share of “Palestine” to become Jordan. This transaction was LEGALLY ILLEGITIMATE AND MORALLY BANKRUPT and paved the way for the decimation of the Jewish people during WW2. Here are two other must-reads for anyone who expects to speak intelligently on the subject:
http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/1/9/1922_Text:_League_of_Nations_Pales...
and
http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/1/9/1922_Text:_League_of_Nations_Pales...
Of course you won’t read them. Doing so might ruin your whole fantasy--that the Jews are responsible for the lack of peace in the world. The ultimate creation of Israel was no “invasion”. It was a LIBERATION movement and at the time, had the support of many of the world’s top-knotch leftists, for that very reason. On this list were:
Jane Fonda, Ralph Nader and Rep. Eugene McCarthy, just to name a few.
You speak as if you care about the historical facts and the international law. But you don’t. You have bit on the hook of the Israel bashers and like it just fine that way.
As far as “nuclear weapons”, Israel is probably the most needy of such weapons given the Arab’s habit of attacking the Jewish state. The other side does NOT have “bottle rockets” and here you have squarely revealed your disingenuous intentions. The other side has and have deployed and fired 8,000 anti-civilian katosha rockets and mortars, each launch constitutes a separate war crime. You don’t seriously contend that these equate to children’s “fireworks”?

have every legal and moral right to dispute these borders. But assuming that Israel abrogates its rights in that dispute, the borders which remain AFTER the illegitimate transaction yield two nations (not three). Jordan and Israel. NOT Jordan, Israel AND Palestine. Thus, the Israelis ARE WITHIN THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS to dispute borders within West Bank and Gaza. They have entirely withdrawn from Gaza but have not abrogated their claims in the West Bank.
You (and Mitchell) may not agree (which is of course your right) but ‘bumper-stickers’ and ‘fortune-cookies’ are WHOLLY INSUFFICIENT to debate this argument.
You:
“Who keeps wanting the U.S. to meddle in the affairs of Iran?”
Another baseless and false accusation. The conflict between the USA and Iran started in earnest in 1978 wherein Israel has had nothing to do with that. Israel would like to strike the Iranian nuclear facilities but Washington has thus far managed to squash that idea. Got it? Didn’t think so.
You:
“Is there anything about Israel's existence that has been remotely likable or peaceable to her Arab neighbours?”
Yes. Israel would like to be left alone to live in peace. Period. There is a compelling legal argument (referenced in the above links) that Israel legally owns all of the West Bank and all of Gaza. The problem is what to do with the W.B. and Gaza Arabs, some of whom are legally “squatters”? So Israel has resigned itself that it can’t have what it feels legally entitled to but the Arabs can’t live with Israel.
The San Remo treaties also state: “ . . . . it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of EXISTING non-Jewish communities in Palestine. . . “ [emphasis added with caps]. Thus, only non-Jews ALREADY LIVING in the Jewish mandated homeland were afforded this protection. Arabs Muslims and Christians who arrived thereafter had no civil rights guaranteed, including no right to establish citizenship. This amounts to a VERY large number of people, especially considering their offspring.
I can’t give you a 90 year long history lesson in one blog post and given that I think you are more interested in punishing Jews then being well informed, I shall stop trying right here.