I've had enough of the Israel-bashing

[Free Palestine]

I'm sorry that I bash a country that has stolen land, violated international law, and waged preemptive wars of expansion.  That's only part of it.  I'm mostly just sick of the Israel Cheerleaders in the United States, who think we should waste billions nannying the country.

[Free Palestine]

LOL no. 'Israel' is the aggressor, occupying what is rightfully Palestinian land.

I wonder who was ready to accept UN compromise back in 1948 and who rejected it all? Take a wild guess.

Jews were only about a third of the population of Palestine, and Arabs owned most of the land in every district.  The partition plan was entirely unfavorable to them.  Of course they rejected it.

Many Zionists accepted the partition plan, because it would be a step towards control of all of Palestine.  As David Ben-Gurion said, "[A]fter we become a strong force, as the result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine."

[Free Palestine]

Happily, the intellectual elite is far removed from the passions that stir the masses, whose hearts (at least still in the US) have some mysterious reverence for Israel.

That "mysterious reverence" for Israel was probably put there by the elite.  It's not normal for people to care so much about a country that is thousands of miles away, that has no influence on their lives.  They have to be told B.S. reasons why Israel is important, and why they should support the miserable country.