Chinese-Dragon
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If any other group of religious fanatics invaded a foreign land, kicked out the locals, colluded with colonial masters and claimed that land because their God had so ordained, they would be castigated. Yet Israel has managed to portray itself as the victim in all this.
After the WW of the early twentieth century, it was deemed the end of the colonial era, where the European colonial masters left their domains to the indigenous peoples. The ONLY exception is Israel which was reserved for people migrating into the new land. This migration -- colonization -- was facilitated, even orchestrated, by the British colonial rulers and, therefore, Israel is a direct symbol of European colonialism.
Are you kidding? You live in Australia, do you think the people that currently rule Australia are the "natives"? What about the 100 million Native Americans?
The Iraq war alone has caused over 1 million casualties, and that is not even counting the unrest in Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Latin America and all other parts of the world.
If you take away the religious factor when talking about Israel's crimes, what is left? In fact what they have done is relatively minor compared to any other violent conflict in the world.
If you look at it objectively, the only reason the Israel-Palestine conflict is relevant at all is because so many people (Westerners and Muslims) have vested interests in either side. On its own, there is nothing particularly significant about the Israel-Palestine conflict at all, especially compared to other violent conflicts which have casualties that are more significant by several orders of magnitude.