Furthermore, why would you not extend the same sympathy towards the Palestinians as you do towards Jews and American natives? It is NOT racist the be critical of Israel and it's government or it's policies. You'd think by now that people would have wised up to the tactic of raising the racist flag every time someone criticizes the State of Israel.
Yes, Jews have been victims of racism. So have countless other groups including Palestinian Arabs. Yet in America, for the past 50 years, there is this one-sided presentation of the situation, and at the side time a cynical policy of arming all sides and doing business with all sides.
The idea that the Palestinians must accept reality and whatever the Israelis are willing to let them have may sound good in theory, but it is very naive. Why would they accept that? Who would? This is not Ireland and just because the Sinn Féin and the British government have accepted each other as evils who are not going away, doesn't mean that that model will apply here in the Mid-East. Not to diminish what the British did to the Irish going back for centuries, but what the Palestinians have experienced in the twentieth century and how they live now is 100 times worse than the situation of the Catholics of N. Ireland. I have been to both places and believe me, I'd rather live in Belfast under any condition than live in Gaza. The Palestinian people are not going to go away and forget about it.
The only reason Palestinians aren't given the same sympathy by Americans as other ethnic groups around the world that are being put through hell is because the Jewish Lobby-run US media doesn't let the average American know what Israel is doing to them on a daily basis over there. There's a reason why the rest of the world recognizes the plight of the Palestinians & that's because the news in other countries isn't as biased as ours is. I have traveled all over the world & Al Jazeera is probably the best, most unbiased news I've ever seen, yet, until the average American became aware of this from their coverage of the Egyptian protests, US media (again, run by the Jewish Lobby) labeled Al Jazeera as a terrorist-friendly network. The Palestinian people have been around since the beginning of time & they're not going anywhere anytime soon no matter how hard Israel tries to eradicate them.
Yes the jews suffered a holocaust, but this wasn't caused by the palestinians! So why the hell should they have to suffer for it??!!!!
"open racist attitudes toward Jews", give me an example please! I've never mentioned one nor has any one else who's been speaking up for the palestinians! Frankly i think it's racist to suggest the Jews are a race, racial anti-Semitism was the cause of Jewish suffering and the notion of them being a distinct racial group apart from the rest of society was what made the anti-Semitism of the 20th Century in europe so vicious and brutal. They are a religious group, take any group of Jews and they come from all over the place, have very different ethnic and cultural make ups, good example would be ethiopian Jews, yemeni jews, russian jews etc
But all of this suffering should mean you would realise not to brutalise another people knowing how it is to have been so criminally treated for so long yourselves! The whole equation of being disgusted with israel's occupation of the west bank and its crimes against the palestinian people is an example of anti-semitism is disgraceful! It's just being deeply concerned with human rights! Israel using the epithet anti-semite as a weapon to silence condemnation of their foreign policy is very short sighted and could have horrendous consequences i.e. legitimising anti-semitism in large parts of the world, and that deeply concerns me! Being horrendously persecuted in the past does NOT give you impugnity to treat a people who had NO part in it like refuse! They label palestinians in general as terrorists for any act of resistance (yes i do feel disgusted by bombs going off on israeli buses, but that is an act of desperation!), that is eerily similar to the Nazis calling the jews of the warsaw ghetto terrorists when they tried to defend themselves!
You guys are right about any time someone speaks up on behalf of Palestinians against what Israel is doing to them, Jews throw around the anti-Semite label. It's like it's their go to move to make people feel bad about even broaching the topic. The conflict is not about religion; it's about human rights, which is ironic because Israel was created as retribution for Jews for the Holocaust. You'd think that they'd be content to have a nation created for them from other people's land being handed to them & then they'd be sympathetic towards Palestinians after what they went through themselves, but it's the complete opposite. They want all of the land to themselves. It's very much like how American settlers treated Native American Indians, but at least Indians got reservations & millions from casinos, etc.
Palestinians are labeled as terrorists by the Jewish Lobby-run US media because they blow themselves up, yet Israel is the only country in the world where every citizen, male & female, have to join the army as teenagers & they patrol the illegal walls they've built on the illegally occupied terrority with US-supplied M-16 machine guns & a disgusting arrogant sense of entitlement. In the history of the world, what peaceful, democratic governments have ever built walls? China, Germany, South Africa-all either communist or racist governments! The reason so many Palestinians willingly die as martyrs is because they'd rather die on their feet on their terms, than live on their knees like the Israelis want them to. They're not allowed to possess so much as a pocket knife! That's why they have to resort to throwing stones against tanks.