Anti-Israeli Government Policies on Palestine

I'm angry because I'm having to write this post again because everything magically disappeared even when I SAVED halfway through. I hate my stupid mouse pad on my laptop. Anyways, Dave found this site that posted a speech about Anti-Semitism by Martin Luther King Jr.: http://www.paulasays.com/articles/on_israel/mlk_on_anti-semitism.html. I don't know what MLK Jr. would write after learning about the current state of Palestine.

I'm looking at this site and reading some other articles by this Paula Stern. Stern describes life in Israel as pretty bad because of having to live in constant fear of terrorist attacks, of Israelis being forced off their homes, of not being able to pray in areas of Jerusalem. I'm reading this and thinking it should be describing Palestinian life. Stern herself blames the conditions Palestinians live in as their own fault saying "Funny that they do not identify this supposed destruction with ongoing Palestinian corruption, internal fighting, the embezzlement and misuse of millions of dollars that should have been spent on education, on health care, on roads and infrastructure." in an article where she criticizes Amnesty International for being biased against Israel and having lost credibility. I'm laughing and at the same time apalled by this website while unfortunately regretting that this is what a majority of people believe or agree to.

I have a friend named Abi. I was mentioning to her that it was pretty awful that Palestinians have to live under occupation. She replies that the debate of whose land it was has been going on for centuries and is not going to be resolved now. I wasn't sure what to say as anything I said would be foreign to her. So I said that Palestinians were forced out of their homes; it would be like if the Aboriginals forced us out of ours except I corrected myself in saying that they would have legitimate reasons because we forced them off theirs first. (I don't think she understood. I think I have to make her watch Peace, Propaganda and the Promise Land, which was the documentary that politicized me to the issue. She later in the day mentions she wants to visit Israel, and I'm secretly choking inside at the thought of site of former homes and villages of now most likely dead or deeply impoverished Palestinians.) Well we need to pay reparations to indigenous people, massive reparations for the genocidal policies afflicted on them; same with the Palestinian people. As far as I know Jews weren't forced off Palestine were they? I mean weren't Jews living there before Britain handed Palestine over to the Zionist lobbyists (who before that were conducting their own terrorist attacks for their cause). I don't know the exact history of that, but I'm not suggesting we dismantled the state of Israel. The majority of the UN council (except for US and Israel) agreed that the occupations of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are illegal. Palestinians want no more than what we have much more of here in Canada, the US, and Israel: their own state, real control over their government, land, security, and future. They can't have that if Israel continues to built settlements in their land, hinder and denigrate every aspect of their life.