What is Reddit's opinion of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine?

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What's worse is that I'm not even surprised by this. They've withheld medical and mobility equipment bought /donated by charities, so of course they'd do this.

Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestine/dp/193598215X

Banger of a book, by the way - really fascinating, though upsetting.

A good starting point is The General's Son by Miko Peled. It tells the story of the inception of the state of Israel from the side of someone whose father saw first hand what actually went on.

>Quite the contrary in many aspects

No. There are millions of Jews in the world, and there are only a couple of dozen of publicly known personalities who are Jewish that are critical of Israel.

>Israel was created by the UN from British Palestine in 1947

Wrong. The UN projected a map of what an Arab state and a Jewish state should look like. All the UN did was take a vote to caste a vote for the resolution to create a state for the Jewish people. The Jews didn't wait. They announced the creation of Israel, and all Hell broke lose. Buy the book I have sourced. It tells the whole story.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/193598215X/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3521659249&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_93n9wywawe_e

>Jews and Judaism is obviously the same thing, but Israel is a country. Zionism is practiced by a hell of a lot of christians too (specifically US christians)

You are obviously a Gentile who has never been around Jews. You need to get out and go meet some Jews.

>Would you prefer me to say racism or xenophobia instead?

You can say whatever you want.

The General's Son by Miko Peled.

There's nothing friendly about that, I think it's a bit sick and fucked, actually - but that's what happens when an illegitimate state rolls out cultural and arguably literal genocide alongside the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people who had been there for generations coexisting with Jews perfectly amicably. It pisses people off to the point some of them become toxic themselves and do despicable things. However, that doesn't mean that you can generalise all Palestinians based on this, just like you can't generalise all Jews as Zionist, when you've got people like Matti Peled, a prominent General and Israeli hero who was instrumental in the founding of the state, but came to regret his actions after Israel became more brazen and aggressive towards the Palestinians, and then spent the rest of his trying to bridge the communities and give the Palestinians security and protection; a task since undertaken by his son.

Yeah, both sides have done horrific things, and one can totally understand Jews wanting a security after the antisemitism experienced in Russia throughout the 19th Century, and of course the holocaust - genuinely the worst thing to have happened in recent memory; way worse than the Rape of Nanjing, which genuinely nearly made throw up while reading about it. However, israel's lack of self-awareness when conflating their actions with their own history is what's truly troubling.

I won't argue your history but the rest of the world will. Miko Peled discusses the history from his father's involvement in the 6 day war, his father was General Peled. (You can buy it on Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/The-Generals-Son-Journey-Palestine/dp/193598215X

Please don't invoke the Nazi party. They believed in a Master Race (those kind of races for example where God gives them the right to do and act without consequence), the ability to secure territorial enlargement, and the harassment, marginalization, imprisonment, and killing of "undesirable" elements." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

I don't claim that the Nazi's were moral, but at least their motto was: "Treu, Tapfer, Gehorsam" "loyal, valiant, obedient." Compare this with the Israeli Mossad: בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה "With clandestine terrorism we will conduct war," or "By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War."

Thank you for the conversation. I'm enjoying this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism