Quote Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar View Post
Um, no, it started with al-nakba.
nakba-shmakba, arabs attacked jews. arabs got whipped really bad. Israelis of course, exploit their victory to the max and act with utmost brutality. Their's a reason for it though, they have nowhere to go, it's israel or death. Now arabs lament over nakba. Instead of doing that, they should have allowed the palestinian refugees to integrate, but no, nobody except Jordan did that. So we still have people lingering in refugee camps 60 years after the war. Nakba. 67, same deal. It's like 1948 never happened and nobody learned anything from that failure. Once again, arabs get whipped real bad. Generated more refugees, lost more land. Nakba.

Nakba came to be largely because of the utter refusal on the arab side to negotiate a fair partition of palestine pre-48. Yes, Israel's policies are in many ways despicable, and it is most definitely not a democratic state, but in this conflict nobody is innocent.