That was a reaction against years of increasing violence by Middle Easterners in Australia.

Something you see far too seldom in the West because they're letting their own people get raped.

The actions of a few thugs doesn't warrant a 5,000 strong riot, which involved the bashing of many people. The Lebanese community was always treated like shit in Sydney, people had to go to beaches and parks in groups, because they were scared they were going to get bashed by Australian elitists back in the 80's and early 90's. When you've been involved in enough attacks like the one my cousin was in, you'd be willing to flex some muscles as well. I've been the victim of the same type of discrimination, I've got a scar on the back of my head, because some Aussie guy decided that it'd be funny to hit that Lebanese kid with a cricket bat.

Australia has some serious issues when it comes to racism and discrimination, I've had friends commit suicide, been bashed and abused based on their background. My parents went through the same thing back in their day, but no one cares, we have a negative stereotype placed on us and it's easier for people to stay ignorant about us, instead of actually learning about the people. Indians, Vietnamese, Greeks and Macedonians went through a similar situation. It only depends on what's 'in' in Australia, 15 years ago it was Greeks, 10 years ago it was Vietnamese, 5 years ago it was Lebanese and now it's Indians. These things shouldn't be happening in a first world country. 

Your rape comment is also inappropriate. Australians have the highest rape count in the country, but that doesn't make for interesting news, instead they find the 5 rape cases out of 10,000 that involve a person of a different background, make that headline news and it gathers more hits. I find it extremely offensive when I open a newspaper and see two rape cases, one of them lists the description of the character as a Muslim, Middle Eastern man, with a wide brow,dark skin, born in Iran, from the suburb of Springsvale and so on. The other rapist is just described as a young troublemaker and that's it, then as soon as you do a bit of research, you find out it was a young Australian guy who has returned to school after raping a mentally handicapped girl. 

I classify myself as an Australian, but the original 'settlers' classify themselves as the only true Australians. It's hard to make friends, when everyone's spitting in your eye. I'm sorry for going so far off topic, but you shouldn't comment on things you don't know about.

The actions of a few thugs doesn't warrant a 5,000 strong riot, which involved the bashing of many people. The Lebanese community was always treated like shit in Sydney, people had to go to beaches and parks in groups, because they were scared they were going to get bashed by Australian elitists back in the 80's and early 90's. When you've been involved in enough attacks like the one my cousin was in, you'd be willing to flex some muscles as well. I've been the victim of the same type of discrimination, I've got a scar on the back of my head, because some Aussie guy decided that it'd be funny to hit that Lebanese kid with a cricket bat.

Australia has some serious issues when it comes to racism and discrimination, I've had friends commit suicide, been bashed and abused based on their background. My parents went through the same thing back in their day, but no one cares, we have a negative stereotype placed on us and it's easier for people to stay ignorant about us, instead of actually learning about the people. Indians, Vietnamese, Greeks and Macedonians went through a similar situation. It only depends on what's 'in' in Australia, 15 years ago it was Greeks, 10 years ago it was Vietnamese, 5 years ago it was Lebanese and now it's Indians. These things shouldn't be happening in a first world country. 

Your rape comment is also inappropriate. Australians have the highest rape count in the country, but that doesn't make for interesting news, instead they find the 5 rape cases out of 10,000 that involve a person of a different background, make that headline news and it gathers more hits. I find it extremely offensive when I open a newspaper and see two rape cases, one of them lists the description of the character as a Muslim, Middle Eastern man, with a wide brow,dark skin, born in Iran, from the suburb of Springsvale and so on. The other rapist is just described as a young troublemaker and that's it, then as soon as you do a bit of research, you find out it was a young Australian guy who has returned to school after raping a mentally handicapped girl. 

I classify myself as an Australian, but the original 'settlers' classify themselves as the only true Australians. It's hard to make friends, when everyone's spitting in your eye. I'm sorry for going so far off topic, but you shouldn't comment on things you don't know about.

There are several points that are wrong in this post.

1) Punitive measures after wars cause trouble. Think Treaty of Versailles, which is a good deal less severe than annexing land.

2) Annexing land is blatantly against international law

"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."

That's part of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

3) Even is you accept that some sort of punishment is necessary for the six day war, don't you think depriving the Palestinians of nationhood for fifty something years is punishment enough without also annexing half of what little land they have left

4) It's arguable as to whether the Arabs are fully to blame for the six day war. Certainly both sides were gearing up for war for a while and the Israelis were the ones who (very cleverly) struck first by attacking the Egyptian air force. Or even before that by attacking the city of As-Samu.

Also, the international community is well against you on this one. Even America under George Bush was against the settlements.

Why don't you be more specific instead of wasting my time?