Why do Israel supporters rationalize behavior?

[cushla_machree]

You can't win with these people.

The past is ever changing story of events, Jewish people are the true 'indigenous' population, the arabs were migrant farmers who didn't arrive on the land until the jewish people began coming back as well, there was no immigration of jewish people into the area, no palestianians were EVER evicted from their homes.

I just can't believe there are people out there who deny the fact that the palestianians were displaced. What are all those settlements and then the refugee camps outside the border?

You know what answer you get? They were displaced by 'war.' Well duh! I've actually been told all the land the settlers are on were empty hilltops and unsettled land. That physically walling in the Palestinians, bulldozing thier homes, creating roadblocks and economically crippling them...IS ALL A WORK OF FICTION.

I feel like we are all stuck on the past on who started it, who's land it really was (according to them it was empty and they moved there, according to the palestinians it was stolen)....yet we ignore they everyday life of the palestinians.

I just can't believe these people exist. How do you have a rational discussion with these people? Because anything you say is just refuted by the fact that you have never been there and you are reading all lies.

[xchrom]

1. excuse me, pardon me, -- i'm just passing through --

i'm heading to a thread over there...

no, no really -- i can't stay.

[Skinner]

2. Locking.

I think it's clear that there are plenty of people on all sides of this conflict who are willing to rationalize all sorts of things.