Keeping the basterds honest...
It's an ugly duck, any way you look at it, but you gotta start somewhere and I rather have this ugly duck flying than all those birds of prey...
Agreed, and I concur with your stand. But, as an extension for others, which part is the ugly duck was shied away from. How about, those who have performed the most ugly deeds throughout their history? And here, only non-abstract ugly ducky deeds can apply. Allow me to list some ugly ducky deeds, and I will limited this only to post-W.W.II factors, which even reasonably young folk can remember or read about - Google exists!
Ready - hold on to your armchair - I am going to rock you:
1. The corruption of the Balfour Declaration:
'IT WILL BE A HISTORIC COMPROMISE TO GRANT TWO STATES IN PALESTNE - ONE FOR THE JEWS - AND ONE FOR THE ARABS" - A cigar chomping Churchill in the creation of the state of Jordan.
Do you really see the carving off 80% of a tiny land as a *COMPROMISE*? And if so - what is NOT a compromise? :bugeye:
Do yu know that a Mandate is not negotiable? That this deed was not merely immoral - it was and remains totally illegal, perpetrated when the Jews were totally helpless following W.W.II. Heard of the Judiciary term UNDER EXTREME DURESS?
Do you really see there was any need for such a COMPROMISE - even after the creation of a host of ficticious states which never existed before - such as S. Arabia, Iraq, all the Gulf states, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc - all created in secret [unike with Israel] - fr 30 barres of oil? Were all these fcticious states not sufficient? Israel is 220K Sq KM; the states created by Britain are upto 2.2M Sq KM each. Did the world desperately need a new golf course on soccer sized Israel? You poor things!
Do you also agree that a 3-state can also be called a 2-state today - in the same land? Funny math, no?
Do you agree that Muslims can be called Palestinian, when this name was applied on the Jewish homeland of Judea by Rome - by the very pre-Christian peoples who now re-dumpy this name on those hell bent on Israel's utter destruction - a typo, dementia or genocidal aspired deed? How did that happen? I looked for a Muslim palestian pre-Arafart and I found many zeros - you? So what's next - Muslim Zionists being apartheided and genocided by the bad Israelis - not a hypothetical question, huh?
Then I checked the UN, being amazed how it has more anti-Israel Reso's than all other states combined, even more than Nazi Germany - explain, please? More surprisingly, I found no UN Reso numbers for the worst crime in the UN's history: the multi-state Arab attack on a UN established state, with a declared goal of genocide - lol - even after those same attacking states voted in the UN motion in Israel's establishing. Why did they bother to vte? Why no UN Reso # for what is clearly the UN's worst violation - please enlighten?
My position is thus: even if the Jews were aliens from Europe, or maybe bad martians dropped on planet earth - they can still be afforded a tiny spec of a parking lot, one which cannot be seen without zooming 100 times on the world map. Because so many ficticious sacred Islamc soils were created 120 years ago which never existed before - unlike Israel - who'd even notice the change in terrain?
There are no ugly ducks here - just, to quote Cagney - I see a doirty rat!