but unlike the violent & whining Palestinians'
This statement, defaming an entire people, is starting to make me think a debate with you is pointless.
As for whether Israel was indeed being magnanimous or not, whatever their actual intentions, it tried its level best, which I've never seen its Muslim neighbours do, or for that matter any other nation do. China never returned a portion of occupied Tibet, of course the Tibetans aren't so violence prone. Thousands of Jews' too were forced to flee the Arab lands after the Israel Palestinian conflict began.
Irrelevant. The point I made was that the decision to withdraw from Gaza was a strategic one, not some grand gesture of kindness. These statements do not refute that.
The reason the Muslim Palestinians' haven't moved on, unlike the Christian Palestinians
Please provide evidence the Christian Palestinians have "moved on"
they chose to elect someone like the Hamas as their sovereign, which doesn't want a two state solution, it simply wants to wipe Israel off the map.
The reasons for the rise of Hamas are varied. Are you saying the only, or primary reason, Hamas was elected is that Palestinians are a bunch of bloodthirsty bigots?
Hypocrisy, double standards maybe endemic to all faiths & all countries', but Muslims are indulging in it today more than everyone else.
There is no possible way you could know that or demonstrate it. That is an entirely unfounded and untestable hypothesis.
The site I'm pasting a link to is a very anti Islamic site,
That's an understatement. It's a right-wing, reactionary Muslim-bashing site, but hey...potato, potato (fuck, that doesn't work when you're writing it out).
but it does mention the list of attacks motivated by Islam on a day to day basis.Since you mentioned about
secular struggles over
boring shit like land, this site
does not include any attacks by either the PLO or the Kurdistan Workers' Party, both of which identify themselves with localised nationalisms, it only include
jihad.
www.thereligionofpeace.com/First off, I said before the 1980s/1990s it was primarily a secular affair-- this site lists attacks since 2001, so is useless in refuting my point.
Second, as to the methodology you claim this oh-so reliable site uses (and very fair and balanced, I'm sure), there is nothing indicating that secular Palestinian groups are excluded. In fact:
(a)
"2002.03.02 Israel Mar Saba 1 0 Jerusalem police detective assassinated by Tanzim while on holiday in the desert." Tanzim is a Fatah militia (definitely members of the PLO), they are not Islamists, and it's a given that police will be considered legitimate targets in any insurgency.
(b) Several incidents like this are listed:
"2001.11.02 Israel Ofra 1 0 19-year-old soldier killed when Palestinian gunmen open fire at a roadblock.", where the targets were clearly military and no organization responsible for the attack is listed, therefore I don't know how you or the site can claim such acts were motivated by Islamic extremism, especially in an area of the world that still has secular insurgent groups that are active.
(c) Then there's this one:
"2001.10.17 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 Israeli Tourism Minister, 75, assassinated in the hallway of the Hyatt Hotel." Although the site neglected to list the organization responsible, it is well known that this attack was carried out by the PFLP, an openly
Marxist Palestinian organization.
(d) There are also SEVERAL Fatah-linked attacks listed (Fatah is most certainly PLO), here's one:
"2001.10.28 Israel Metzer 1 0 Fatah terrorists kill one Jew in a machine gun attack." Notice how they simply say "a Jew" was killed-- no indication of whether the Jew in question was a soldier or policeman or not, leaving the reader with the distinct (though perhaps untrue) impression that the person killed was a civilian and was targeted for their religion. Which brings me to my next point...
(e) The site also lists many, many bus-stop attacks without listing who was targeted exactly. It's a pretty common tactic for Palestinian militants to machine gun bus-stops where Israeli reservists are congregated, as IDF reservists frequently use public transportation and are sometimes unarmed while doing so. But again, without including any information to let us know whether this is the case or not, many readers will simply assume that it was a random attack against civilians.
So yeah, I say your source and its methodology are bullshit.
Topic: Hypocricy at its best, demonstrated by the UK Gouverment!