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How do you know that Lichtman represents a "small minority" viewpoint? Have you done a census?I have to say that I agree with Zevie on both points
1. Israel was negotiating agreements with muslim nations before the war. It has no beef with people who can trade. It wants the Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank, whether they are muslim or christian. It wants them out, pure and simple. In a box or on a plane. It excluded Palestinian Christians from movement around Jerusalem just like their muslim mates before the war. It's the Palestinian part that the Israelis don't like.
2. People like Lichtman are in the small minority. They don't represent the views of jews or Israelis in general. These kinds of views might have been common when lichtman was a small boy, but not anymore. Look at Israeli behavior post war. Revenge. Payback. Get those nazis even if they are 90 year old and were only working as an office girl in a nazi's office. Listen to the words of the highly religious part of Israel. It wants death to the Palestinians, not to muslims in general. It wants them starved. Lichtman is an anomaly.
So I have to say that I agree with him on both points.
You are referring to the "highly religious (ie orthodox) " part of Israel to back up your comments. That is a very sick joke, because if you want to highlight a minority Jewish viewpoint, then in fact, it would be the religious orthodox nutcases.
Why are you writing that "Israel has not beef with people who can trade?", as if "ability to trade" is the criterion?? Really does sound like a provocative (racist/genuuinely anti-Semitic) kind of statement.
Israel has a "beef" with anything that stands in the way of its ability to spearhead the domination of both its own and US political hegemony in the Middle East.
Israel, and the US, are engineering the restructure of Middle Eastern state relations so that the US can exert its full control, with Israel playing the role of its well paid proxy.
The Palestinians stand in the way. Solution: genocide.
Hezbollah stands in the way. Solution: extend the war to Lebanon and destroy Hezbollah
Iran stands in the way. Solution: regime change in Iran, with the collaboration of the US and its NATO allies, in full scale war.
None of this is based on religion.
Religion is merely a cover for predatory imperialist interests.