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They have the stated goal of destroying Israel, which has been the same since Israel was founded.

And this is different from those who would prevent the Arab population in Palestine from forming their own state how?

There was nowhere near that number of Arabs in that area back in 1947. Arafat had outbreeding Israelis as one of his goals.

I am sorry if historical facts do not match your ideology. According to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine report, by 1984 the population was 68% Arab and 32% Jewish (I will amend my comments to reflect this number). The 1920 League of Nations's Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine stated that of a population of 700,000 only 76,000 were Jewish. This should not come as a surprise. The Jewish population in Palestine was one of recent immigrants, not a continuing presence from ancient times.

Sounds like you are against Israel.

What I am against is treating either the Jewish or Arab populations as if they had lesser rights than the other. The Arabs are not going to go away. The right of Israel to exist cannot be based on denying the Arab population the same rights.

Who or what would “prevent the Arab population in ‘Palestine’ from forming their own state"? Guess what: it was never the Israelis. It was never anyone in fact. So who is this mystery nation-state or empire doing that? The Arabs themselves, who rejected having their own state in 1947 because it included the existence of the Jewish state of Israel.

And why is it at all that “the Arab population in ‘Palestine’” wants to “form” a “state” that extends from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and includes all of the territory of the current state of Israel?

According to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine report …

OK, you are an anti-Israel liberal and thanks for admitting it by acting like the UN has any legitimacy. The UN does not promulgate fact and never has. The UN was run by a Nazi from 1972 to 1981, during whose tenure Zionism (the very notion of having a Jewish state in Israel) was declared “racism”, and the version of UN that produced this “report” is no different but rather worse than those days.

(Is this your opus, BTW?)