And you'd accept being forced off your land in the first place? You'd accept being given a few minutes to a few hours to pack your belongings and vacate your house and land so that another family could move right in? You wouldn't want to go to war against a group of people who did that to you and those around you? Heh.. Don't make me laugh. You're the one who constantly defends your right to arms in case your Government becomes tyrannical and you are defending the people who removed others from their homes, took their land and continue to do so today? It's bad enough they did it in the first place, but for them to continue to do it in all that time.. as you said earlier.. 60 years.. And you blame the Palestinians for wanting to retaliate? Yes the war was lost, but the actions from that war continue today. Israel was not happy with what they took in the war and have continued to encroach and take Palestinian land since the war ended. Or are you somehow forgetting that little fact?
Oh, and if you want to be taken seriously, I'd suggest you use a slightly less biased source. Reading through the links provided from your link.. HAHAHAA..
More the Fool Bells?, it is a historical fact, and it doesn't matter were the Quote was found, it is verbatim from the May 14, 1948 David Ben-Gurion speech and The Proclamation of 'Israel's Independence'
http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion
We extend the hand of peace and good-neighborliness to all the States around us and to their people, and we call upon them to cooperate in mutual helpfulness with the independent Jewish nation in its Land. The State of Israel is prepared to make its contribution in a concerted effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
Israel's Proclamation of Independence, read on (14 May 1948)
Even amidst the violent attacks launched against us for months past, we call upon the sons of the Arab people dwelling in Israel to keep the peace and to play their part in building the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent.
Israel's Proclamation of Independence, read on (14 May 1948)
http://www.multaqa.org/pdfs/ISRALI INDEPENDANCE DECLERATION.pdf
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be ready to cooperate with the
organs and representatives of the United Nations in the implementation of
the Resolution of the Assembly of November, 29, 1947, and will take steps
to bring about Economic Union over the whole of Palestine.
We appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building
of its State and to admit Israel into the family of Nations.
In the midst of wanton aggression,
we yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of
the State of Israel to preserve the ways of peace and play their part in the
development of the State, on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due
representation in all its bodies and institutions - provisional and permanent.
We extend our hand in peace and neighbourliness to all the neighbouring
states and their peoples, and invite them to co-operate with the independent
Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is prepared to
make its contribution to the progress of the Middle East as a whole.
Our call goes out to the Jewish people all over the world to rally to our side
in the task of immigration and development and to stand by us in the great
struggle for the fulfilment of the dream of generations for the redemption of
Israel.
With trust in Almighty God, we set our hand to this Declaration, at this
Session of the Provisional State Council, on this Sabbath eve, the fifth of
Iyar, 5708, the fourteenth day of May, 1948."
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The Signatories David Ben-Gurion, Daniel Auster, Mordechai Bentov, Isaac
