Andrew Katz
1 min readNov 4, 2023

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Well, agree re the Caananites. Not much sense in bringing them up since they are gone.

You really can't blame the Palestinians for not accepting the UN Partition; why should they voluntarily give up any part of the land they view as their homeland?

That's the problem: who's wrong here? I believe the Jews absolutely needed a homeland, a nation. Not so much because of WWII, but how, witnessing firsthand the catastrophe we had experienced, the Allies still did nothing. Didn't open their borders, or allow even one extra Jew to immigrate into Palestine.

Still, not the Arabs' problem.

There were many Arab-led massacres & riots perpetrated against settler Jews well before the war of independence. That doesn't validate Deir Yassin, but I'm not certain what exactly happened there. Suffice to say Lehi & Irgun were thugs who definitely harmed the Zionist cause with the murders of Lord Moyne & Count Folke-Bernadotte. Pity so many of their leaders rose to high position in the Israeli government afterward.

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Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz

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LA born & raised, now I live upstate. I hate snow. I write on healthcare, politics & history. Hobbies are woodworking & singing Xmas carols with nonsense lyrics

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