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Funny how they both came to lead Israel and yet Israel gets to be painted as some innocent victim despite the inclinations of the people they voted into power.Some Revisionist Zionists rejected the partition plan as a renunciation of legitimately Jewish national territory.[87] The Irgun Tsvai Leumi, led by Menachem Begin, and the Lehi (also known as the Stern Group or Gang), the two underground, Revisionist-affilitated underground organisations which had been fighting against both the British and Arabs, stated their opposition. Begin warned that the partition would not bring peace because the Arabs would also attack the small state and that "in the war ahead we'll have to stand on our own, it will be a war on our existence and future".[88] He also stated that "the bisection of our homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized."[89] Begin was sure that the creation of a Jewish state would make territorial expansion possible, "after the shedding of much blood."[90]
Several scholars endorse Simha Flapan's view that it is a myth that Zionists accepted the partition as a compromise by which the Jewish community abandoned ambitions for the whole of Palestine and recognized the rights of the Arab Palestinians to their own state. Rather, Flapan argued, acceptance was only a tactical move that aimed to thwart the creation of an Arab Palestinian state and, concomitantly, expand the territory that had been assigned by the UN to the Jewish state.[91][92][93][94][95] Baruch Kimmerling has said that Zionists "officially accepted the partition plan, but invested all their efforts towards improving its terms and maximally expanding their boundaries while reducing the number of Arabs in them."[96]
Addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut (the Eretz Israel Workers Party) days after the UN vote to partition Palestine, Ben-Gurion expressed his apprehension stating:
"…the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews. Such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%".[97]
Ben-Gurion said "I know of no greater achievement by the Jewish people . . . in its long history since it became a people".[98]
Commandos arrest wounded Palestinian and gun down his cousin in the surgery wing of a hospital in occupied West Bank.
An elite Israeli military force that operates undercover stormed the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron and shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
Abdullah al-Shalaldeh was killed by five rounds fired early Thursday after 21 members of the elite unit - known as Mustaarabin - barged into the hospital room of his cousin, Azzam al-Shalaldeh, a ministry statement said.
The commandos wanted to question Azzam - who required surgery after earlier being shot by Israeli security forces - and his cousin tried to prevent them from doing so when the Israelis opened fire.
Following the killing of Abdullah, the Israeli force arrested Azzam who was recovering at the hospital.
Dr Jihad Shawar, director of al-Ahli Hospital, told Al Jazeera the Israeli unit entered the facility at about 3am local time.
One of the soldiers was reportedly disguised as a pregnant woman in labour.
Unknown individuals shot at Israeli vehicles on Friday afternoon near the West Bank settlement of Otniel.
Two people were killed - a man in his 40s and a male around 18 years old. Reports after the attack claimed that the pair were father and son. A 16-year-old family member in the car was also moderately wounded.
A female was lightly wounded and four young children, all in the same family, were also in the vehicle at the time of the attack.
Father and son murdered in West Bank terror shooting
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4725112,00.html
So one bad decision invalidates everything else the organisation ever did?
I don't think you'll like it when that principle is applied elsewhere, Gary.
You see, this is BS.
Going into a hospital and grabbing a known scumbag is one thing.
Shooting up a car full of kids is another entirely...
Any organisation that makes Saudi Arabia the head of their human rights council is a joke. Do you deny this?
Colour my ass surprised! The US 'ol Murica did the same **** a few weeks ago. Oops, it was a mistake. Don't worry, they will fix their "mistakes" (as in distract us from their own war crimes) by "assassinating" big bad boys such as Johnny the Jihadi (checked) and a couple of high ranking ISIS leaders (this weekend).
Fk US and its sidekicks. They are the real villains in the ME crisis.
and guess which incident gets the bigger fuss made of, libtards be libtarding![]()
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So they stormed a hospital to only kill one palestinian? No kids, woman or any other "innocents"?
Another Israeli attacked after being mistaken for a terrorist
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4725708,00.html
The new stabbing game played by palestinian kids, even "dressing up" as Jewish children
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