Originally posted by PonyOne
But in any case, how is it that I am being racist? And as was touched on, the Palestinians only really came under the blanket term of the "Palestinians" after the 1967 war. Prior to that, they were what they basically are: nomadic and seminomadic Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese. And the honest to God truth is that they are just as if not more victimized by the leading Arab "brothers" in those nations, who more or less use them as pawns in a game to keep their own peoples' minds off their own oppression and unfair societies.

First off , I didn't mean to call you personally racist at all ... In the same post you said that you regret the loss of palestinian life as you do to any other life lost... I deeply respect that.
I said that the statement of not believing in a people's right to have their own nation (specialy a nation that was taken away from them by force) is racist against those people.

Dude , I have newspaper covers back from 1948 ... The headlines says "Zionists Capture Palestine" .
The Ideology of denying the existance of palestinians , and trying to do change everything on the land to erase any traces of their existance is racist ... It's more or less of a genocide.
The term "Palestinians" can be found in many arab historic books, that were written and printed centuries ago !

To state all the historic facts , terms as Syrians,Lebanese , Palestinians , etc. weren't commonly used to describe people , since it was one big arab nation ... Those divisions are the traces of british colonialism.
It's reasonable from you to say that Palestinians are just jordanian,lebanese & syrian nomads , because I'm deadsure that if it was Syria you'd say Syrians are just nomadic Palestinians,lebanese etc.

There were very few "homelands" that the Israelis took; there was a lot more desolate, unused, moderately forboding land that the Jews put irragation into and turned into useable agricultural land, that Palestinians later cried "theft" over...

Very "Few" ?? Few what , few hundreds of thousands?!

About the unused lands , most of the arab lands are deserts ... Is that an excuse for you to occupy any of them ?
What about Australia , there are loads of square kilometers of unused lands ... Why wasn't the Jewish state established over there , considering that you're both western communities, which guarantees minimal traditional conflicting.

how can peace ever exist in that region when there are people who refuse to listen to reason, and instead get hot headed, act rashly & call one another names who run rampant...?

Can I ask you a simple question ?
Before 1948 , wan't it hell lot more peacefull , inspite of the British colonialism.