reply to post by john124
Excuse me?
You didn’t did you?
The birth of modern day Islamic terrorism can be linked back to the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.
What a crock! ( pardon my language )

Correct me if im wrong, but weren’t the Israeli's being bombed by Arabs in the 50's?
Weren’t the Arabs killing Jews back in the 20's?
That graph above is the numbers of Jews killed by Arabs ( bombs, massacres, beatings ) on any given year.
That’s an Israeli source, so im not saying its accurate or what not, but its saying that modern day terrorism DIDN’T start with Iran.
So take that bit of propaganda, and use it on some idiot elsewhere.
ATS don’t applaud that sort of garbage.
Secondly,
Iran does indeed support Hezbollah and Hamas.
None of which are nice and friendly people, but neither is Israel when you look at the state of Gaza.
Now, Hamas is an elected political movement.
How does Iran's backing of Hamas, via military and intelligence any different from say, Saudi Arabia?
At least in Palestine, they have elections, yeah?
There is only a handful of nations that consider HAMAs terrorists.
The US and EU and Israel being the most vocal.
Surprise surprise though right?
I mean, Israel and the US and Europe... well, we don’t really need to talk about the links there do we.
Its like saying, Motor companies and Big oil don’t communicate...
Now by no means is Hamas in the right, they are definitely in the wrong.
But so is Israel.
To jump on board and support one over the other shows no one has really thought for themselves over the issues.
Both nations deserve the right to freedom and life. Both nations have the right of self defence, BUT... Israel is the major player here, militarily,
economically and power wise. The onus MUST be on them to use that power and assist.
It choses to bomb, and THAT is why Hamas, an elected political group is justified in striking back.