RGV AG said:
To overlook actions such as the Deir Yassin massacre and many other forced and violent evictions of Palestinians that had been on lands for thousands of years is shortsighted and it is a large part of the continuing conflict that remains today.
To selectively mention Jew-on-Arab violence while omitting incidents like the
Hadassah medical convoy massacre or
Kfar Etzion massacre or the
history of violence by both sides paints a false narrative. Both groups used force on the other. And both groups have historical claims to the land going back thousands of years.
The powers that be decided that the Jews would get the land west of the Jordan (Israel), and the Arabs would get the land east of the Jordan (Jordan). But even then the Arabs were not content to leave Israel in peace.
The continuing conflict today has nothing to do with "overlooking" Jew-on-Arab violence...it originates with Islam and the Prophet's view of Jews as played out over and over again. Take a look at his treatment (mass execution) of the surrendering Jews after he conquered Medina. They were the victims of the
1033 Fez massacre and
1066 Granada massacre. When there wasn't massacres, there were pogroms. There was the 1834 and
1929 massacres of Safed, Syria (now Israel). And this is a really tiring exercise, as there are thousands of mass murder events of jews at the hands of arabs in middle east history. The same cannot be said of the converse.
Having spent time in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, I can say unequivocally that Israel is the party that offers Arab and Jew the opportunity to live and work side-by-side.