freediver wrote on Oct 14
th, 2025 at 7:09am:
Where are you getting all the from?
How did the US keep the borders from being changed by force?
What percentage of the population were killed in the genocide?
Mind-boggling that a politics forum owner can be this ignorant.
Not only is all this information publicly available, but all Israelis are fully aware of the truth of Israel's coming into existence, warts and all.
However, they justify all Jewish/Zionist/Israeli actions as necessary in the context of Jewish history since the destruction of the 2nd Temple.
Before 1967, Israel's continued existence was far from likely... it had not yet been tested in its ability to defend itself - the only justification for any state's existence, despite one politics forum owner's half-arsed notions.
Israel was wholly dependent on the goodwill of US presidents and their administrations and US allies, as guarantors of Israel's continued viability and existence.
During the years between 1948 and the late 1960s, the US and its allies could impose commanding diplomatic, military and economic pressure on Israel to desist in its ethnic cleansing of its proposed greater Israel.
Israel's borders have remained unconfirmed by Israel to this day for a reason...
Israel 'proper' in the minds of Israelis and diaspora Jews cannot be realised without the complete restoration of the ancient Jewish borders, and the building of the 3rd Temple exactly on the site of both the 1st and 2nd Temples.
This includes, at its most urgent, the annexation of the West Bank (
Judaea-Samaria) into Israel, hence the continued expulsion of non-Jewish residents there (including all Christians and Muslims), replacing them with Jewish settlers.
As for not being tested until 1967 - another load of poppycock.
Israel was attacked immediately upon its proclamation in 1948 and prevailed.