One Degree wrote:Not bothering to get in to the truthfulness of that, why should it matter? Why would a people’s desire for autonomy be determined by past history?
Dude, Catalans and Kurds are not being dragged from their houses in the dead of night and then told that their house is to be demolished to make way for a new Jewish-only settlement. Catalans and Kurds even though lacking the rights they wish they had, they still have access to the houses of their fathers, still have access to their fields, their groves and trees, still enjoy equal rights before
civil authorities and are not subject to a military occupation which means that instead of police they do not have a hostile
foreign army patrolling their streets instead of courts and jury they do not have
military tribunals of a hostile foreign nation judging them. How does this not matter?
How is this not relevant? And this going on for more than 50 years and counting. It's beyond pathetic complaining that the occupier is the victim of criticism while the occupied who has been stripped of his human decency should not even complain because it is hurting the feelings of his tyrrant. Have you lost it? If people and the UN failed to condemn this state of affairs, a state of permanent occupation, of constant degradation, then what would we be left with? These token condemnations that change nothing in the ground is the least anyone can do if not for the Palestinians but for our own collective sanity and fake facade.
The UN you say is biased in favour of Palestine?
Israeli Declaration of Independence wrote:On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE BASIS OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
EN EL ED EM ON
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