Discussion on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Benny Morris described the Palestinians as,

quote, a sick, psychotic people,

quoting him. So the presumptions,

the assumptions of Daniela Weiss,

they may sound radical to an American viewer,

but they are typical of Israeli society,

from Daniela Weiss at one end of the spectrum

to Benny Morris, who was once Israel's leading historian,

at the other end of the spectrum.

Just one last word.

If you look at the current U.N. report

on the deliberate killing of Palestinian children,

they describe many scenes of the settlers,

a group of settlers urinating on a child.

A group of settlers kidnapping a 4- and 5-year-old child,

brother and sister, and tying them to a tree.

A bunch of Israeli soldiers, not settlers,

soldiers attacking a 16-year-old who is hearing impaired and kicking him on the ground.

And then a group of soldiers attacking a fellow,

shooting him, he's on the ground pleading for help.

The soldiers stand around laughing,

filming the scene, and blocking any medical aid for him.

The soldiers, remember Israel is a citizen army,

the soldiers are representative.

Israeli society just like Daniela Weiss at one end of the spectrum

and Benny Morris at the other end is representative of Israeli society.

It is unfortunately, it has become a nation of child killers.

Benny Morris, your response to that?

Well, it sounds like a self-hating Jew,

Norman Finkelstein, and the woman, Daniela Weiss, is obviously a religious messianic fanatic.

I don't think either of them should represent anyone and

they certainly don't speak the truth about most Israelis as Finkelstein would have it.

The Israeli settlers in the West Bank,

many of them are behaving illegally,

and the government is going along with them and protecting them in various ways,

certainly not prosecuting them for committing these crimes

more or less on a daily basis in the West Bank,

because they ultimately support eventual annexation of the West Bank,

and they believe that removing small communities of shepherds serves that purpose.

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