BBC News - Israel Bus explosion - Several Injured

[Old Hack]

Couldn't agree with you more there. Amazing how the oppressed can quickly learn to become the oppressors.

I find I tend to get pissed when some lunatic climbs aboard the 406 and pops a bomb off, or cracks some rockets off in the general direction of somewhere like Maple Road, Surbiton, or such like. Kind of annoys me when there's a rocket division set up in A&E and a tank in the kids schoolyard...

[TykeMerc]

Before the creation of Israel there would have never been such sentiment towards the Jews by the Palestinians....

Arguably not true, there were tensions, often extremely violent in Palestine between the long standing (centuries old) Jewish and Arabic communities. There's a depressingly long history of clannish, ethnic nastiness in the whole region including various sects of both major religions battering opposing sects of their own ethnic/religious groups.

[Troll]

Muslim Bosnias are from Bosnia, not from Russia, Germany, USA, England etc.

Turks by means of conquest during the Ottoman Empire

[NotAllThere]

But why did they think it was ok to do that?

Take the land I mean?

I'm not being difficult, I just don't know enough about it other than seeing stuff on the news etc. Who said it was ok for Israel to be there? How did they get there?

Well, the surrounding nations launched an attack, and got chased way into their own countries. Israel withdrew a bit, but decided to keep some of it in order to make their borders rather more defensible should Egypt, Syria and/or Jordan try it again.

At least - that's the reason they give.

Nice - do you want to work for the BBC?

Is this some kind of allusion (rather than addressing the ideas put forward) to the BBC being biased against the Palestinians? That would be quite amusing considering the die-hard zionists tend to think it's biased towards Palestinians.

Maybe they're getting the balance right? I don't know - I watch Al-Jazeera.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Well, the surrounding nations launched an attack, and got chased way into their own countries. Israel withdrew a bit, but decided to keep some of it in order to make their borders rather more defensible should Egypt, Syria and/or Jordan try it again.

At least - that's the reason they give.

Is this some kind of allusion (rather than addressing the ideas put forward) to the BBC being biased against the Palestinians? That would be quite amusing considering the die-hard zionists tend to think it's biased towards Palestinians.

Maybe they're getting the balance right? I don't know - I watch Al-Jazeera.

die-hard zionists view Palestinians as worse than animals so of course they are going to say the BBC is being biased towards Palestinians. 1 million Palestinian lives is not equal to 1 Israeli life according to them.