A great background on how the Soviet Union gave critical support for the creation of Israel, ignoring fundamental principles and turning course on a dime. (It later reversed itself.) Amazingly, the US voted for the rights of Palestinian Refugees to return, and the Soviet Union voted against the right of return.
This has to be seen as how a failure to stick to principles can lead to very bad things.
Here are Right Wing Zionists celebrating "Jerusalem Day" (the day Zionists stole Jerusalem--which was intended to be an international city not controlled by any one state) while watching trees around Al Aqsa Compound burn. They are singing about revenge. Some have claimed that Palestinians set the fire and the Jews are merely celebrating an annual holiday. I don't find that believable, but actually it wouldn't change my assessment of how ugly this scene is, and it has been re-tweeted by many anti-Zionist Jews in horror, including Joshua Leifer (of Jewish Currents) who responded to such defenses by tweeting:
"You think it's a defense to say that this happens every year.
But it's just as damning. The people in the video are clearly reacting to the fire. They're shouting ימח שמם at the Palestinians.
You can't lie that ugliness away."
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