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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kman2000" data-source="post: 16896139" data-attributes="member: 511882">Israel is amazing but are they right?Great article but its a bit too much of a biased perspective. Decades of peace talks have failed so obviously I don’t think we can come up with an absolute answer on this forum so please keep the conversation civil. I am just merely giving an insight of the other side of the story. If you look at the facts, If Sri Lankans support Israel, it might look somewhat hypocritical. Makes me think the readers are influenced more from the anti Islamic trends growing in Sri Lanka rather than actual facts and such an article could easily be used to ignite more hatred towards Islam. Education is the main aim of my post, and I am neither Islamic, Jewish nor Palestinian. I am an independent observer who is unbiased. Anyways, let us recap the birth of Israel and what the article glorifies. They placed a mass of persecuted people (Jews) fleeing from the anti-Semitic Europe, in Palestine which was under British rule at the time during World war 2. Palestine already had  indigenous people living there (Palestinians). Yet the UN introduced a partition plan which separated the country which gave majority of the land to the refugee Jewish people. Israel was born on top of an already established country. So how did Israel grow that rapidly? Because of the one sided UN partition plan, neighboring countries came to protect the rights of historic Palestine and its people. War forced  millions of Palestinian inhabitants to flee. When they came back after the war, they could not return to their homes, because now it was Israel- a new country. These people are still refugees in neighboring Jordan and Syria or stuck in Gaza.  Israel had the backing of USA and is still the number 1 beneficiary in foreign aid. Post world war 2, any country taking on Israel would end up taking on USA and its allies. This is the number 1 reason why the attempts to take Israel has failed. Russia do sell arms to Arabic states but is nothing in comparison to what USA does to Israel.  So where does the hypocrisy come in? Lets look at a hypothetical scenario and put the situation in a Sri Lankan civil war context. I can’t highlight the term “Hypothetical” enough. 1948 - Sri Lanka is a British Colony. They bring millions of Tamil refugees and base them in Sri Lanka, separate the country and call it Elam because some ancient religious book talked of a promised land.  the Tamils get majority of the land according to the UN. Some neiboring countries are pissed off and try to help you but the Tamils have the backing of USA, Canada and England. Sinhalese lose 79% of Sri lanka and that area is called Elam. Your grandparents who lived in these lands are now refugees living in camps in India and Maldives. Your parents are born in these refugee camps. 1988 you are born a refugee. You hear about your home land from your grand parents but you cannot return. Your relatives didn’t flee. Now they are stuck in the coastline of Colombo (GAZA strip) and your baby cousins just died of a tit for tat missile attack.How would you feel? Who do you think is correct? Would you fight to win your homeland back? Would you join a group like Hamas? How would you feel when you see your children getting killed in air strikes? Would you still think USA are the good guys?But doesn’t Israel belong to the Jewish people? Doesn’t it say in the Bible? Didn’t Moses lead the Jews from Egypt to the promised land? were there already inhabitants there when they came? Lets look at history of the region. The region was under Romans, Byzantines, Islamic rule (638 – 1099), Christian Crusades (who slaughtered Jewish people btw) and Saladin (Islamic rule again), then the British Colonists (1917). How far in history would you look back to determine ownership of the land? The majority Palestinians who lost their land in 1948 are descendants from over a thousand year generation which would earn them the right of being recognized as indigenous inhabitants. Does UN, USA and its allies have the right to give 79% of the country to refugee Jewish people? As Sri Lankans, we know how we feel when these countries dictate how we run our country. How would we feel if this happened to us? Please do your research and always try to see both perspectives.</blockquote>

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