Obama calls for Israel to restore 1967 boundaries

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

vlad321 said:

None of those mercenaries represented anything sovereign. It's like saying that Switzerland is on the Pope's side because he was protected by Swiss mercenaries. Last I checked, Switzerland was fairly neutral.

As for ethnical cleansing I fully agree. I already agreed that there should have been provisions for the protectoin of the jewish population in whatever they had settled on.

Edit: To me foreign help is fairly well defined as a foreign army or resources (whether it is money or weapons, or other such help). I have wondered before whether Israel woudl have received mroe help, maybe even some army, had the west not been completely decimated by WW2.

Actually, a lot of the times they did represent soverign things, as you would hire mercenaries from rulers.  VS the czechs selling weapons to someon for a quick buck.

I mean... they weren't gifted those weapons.  They bought them.

The whole "state intervention" was nothing more then one country selling weapons to another... for profit.

 

Also, you shouldn't be blaming the west... but the east.  The Czechs were aloud to sell Israel the weapons because Stalin liked Israel.

Trust me I am blaming far more people than just thew jews. In factthey aren't even close to the top for being resposible for this mess on my list.

You are also right, thuogh for some reason I still thought of Russia as west. Though I don't know how you can say it wasn;t heklpful, then say that Stalin let it happen because he liked Israel. I am also kind of surprised to hear this because I don't remember Russian jews being in the best graces of the communists.