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Just to address that Bats, I originally wrote quite a bit more on that topic and pretty much echoed your sentiments about how people in the UK might feel if another group of people laid claim to it and set up a nation state within its borders and I agree that the Palestinian people have a legitimate grievance. However, regardless of whether you think the state of Israel should have been allowed to be created in its current form and location, it now does and both sides have committed some very dubious acts throughout the ensuing conflict.
The good guys are the Palestinians. If white Americans declared themselves "the real anglo-saxons" and preceded to colonise and ethnically cleanse England I imagine you'd be rather displeased. So I don't see why central and eastern Europeans get to do it in the middle east.
Disturbing, seeing those who get the shit end of apartheid be called "no worse" than those responsible.
Just to address that Bats, I originally wrote quite a bit more on that topic and pretty much echoed your sentiments about how people in the UK might feel if another group of people laid claim to it and set up a nation state within its borders and I agree that the Palestinian people have a legitimate grievance. However, regardless of whether you think the state of Israel should have been allowed to be created in its current form and location, it now does and both sides have committed some very dubious acts throughout the ensuing conflict.