Can we then pull up out of the weeds? Forget the details and the long screeds. I see two fundamentally different overarching narratives:
Story #1:
Primary effect: Jews taking land from Arabs
Secondary effect: Arab violence in retaliation
Tertiary effect: Jews controlling Arabs for their own safety
Story #2
Primary effect: Arabs eternally hate Jews and will be violent when they can
Secondary effect: Jews controlling Arabs for their own safety
Tertiary effect: Jews taking land from Arabs
The first story is more believable to me. Every part of it is emminantly believable. We know if you get your land stolen you will get very very angry and that can lead to violence. We all agree (both stories) that violence of Arabs puts a security risk on the Jews. Nothing is out of place in this story.
But the second story seems crafted in order to justify land stealing. In order to pull this off, they have to invoke this concept that the eternal hatred of Arabs towards Jews is primary. The reason that is less believable is because (1) Arabs and Jews got along together before WWI, and (2) Palestinians live in peace with Jews inside of Israel right now.
Anyhow I really want to shut up now, I'm tired of this topic, but I wanted to share my high-level comparison before I quit.
