A real annoyance for people who have lived in Palestine is that the Zionists and the Israelis who replaced them are trying to live like Europeans in a desert. Israel wastes resources, especially water, which is going to be the base cause for the next real war in the region. In a very real way, Israel is already at war with the environment.
]]>Of course, the problem with that viewpoint is that probably 2/3rds of Israelis really *were* born there today, and the remaining 1/3rd emigrated from a country that no longer exists (the USSR). Both communities — Israelis and Middle Eastern Muslims — seem to however continue to behave as if this were still 1951 and ethnic cleansing and bullets are the solution to all problems everywhere.
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