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Because they were only to be given half of what had been all theirs.
Well then I suggest you go back to Europe where you come from and attempt to claim you land!!
Not all the land of Israel was theirs. Some of it was owned by Jewish families going back generations. Arabs didn't own everything.
And for that matter, the land hadn't truly been 'theirs' in centuries; not in terms of geopolitical control. Sure, the Arabs had their own empires but the Ottomans took control in the Middle Ages. Funny how it's okay for the Arabs to have a myriad of their own countries but the Middle East's Jewish population isn't even allowed to have one.
Well then I suggest you go back to Europe where you come from and attempt to claim you land!!
Who was this directed against?
The Jews owned 6% of the land in 1948..
and yes Palestine was sleepy and apolitical for 400 years under the Ottomans..
but, Israel had always been a vassal state under Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, the Greeks and the Romans.
Palestine was under foreign control most of its history.
Not to forget the Byzantine Empire and how Omar invited the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
The Jews were a tiny minority and they had lived all over the Arab word since before the birth of Christ and they had prospered.
I get that they wanted their own country even if they had to commit genocide.
if the shoe fits, wear it!!
And prior to this they had been under months of sustained attacks by Arabs who had already rejected a two-state solution.
Palestine has never been a national identity in its own right. It hasn't even existed until after Israel was created.
Except for the period in history when there was actually a Kingdom of Israel: between circa 900 - 720 BCE.
The first mention of 'Palestine' is as a Roman province, not a nation-state. Not so for Israel.
Or how they were subjected to pogroms across the Muslim world at various points throughout history.
... or how the Arabs invited themselves into Jerusalem as conquerors. If it's okay for the Arabs to live on land their ancestors gained through military victory, why not Jewish people?
So because they're a 'tiny' minority they can't have self-determination & national self-governance like the Arabs do in over a dozen countries already?
When have they committed genocide? Were the people of Gaza slaughtered wholesale while I was at work this week? Have Israel's Arab citizens been deprived of their citizenship and herded into camps?
It doesn't fit me which is why I asked.
People have no legal right to land they left hundreds or thousands of years ago. Your logic is flawed.
Precisely which part of my 'logic' is flawed in light of this? Please point out specific parts.
And fair enough. They had no legal right to return until it was granted to them. And the Arabs had no legal right to attack the Jewish populations in their midst before Israel was even created but they did it anyway. The Arabs had no right to invade a sovereign country the day after it was created but they did it anyway. Or are you only against invasion of Muslim countries?
On the subject of things which were legal: the Arabs had the legal right to expel their Jewish populations in numerous Arab countries (they drafted laws to this effect) and steal all their possessions. Should they have done it? No.
Legal=/= moral.
Palestine was a province of Syria according to the Greek historian Herodotus in 500 BC. Palestine is also mentioned in Shakespeare and Chaucer.
Most Gazans are not born in Gaza.. They are refugees from the occupied West Bank and the Negev.
Yes. Omar invited the Jews to return to Jerusalem in 717 A.D.
For most of its history Israel was a vassal state under Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, the Greeks, Romans, Byzantium and Ottomans.
You may want to look into REAL history. The Jewish terror gangs were formed between 1920-1922.. and they killed over 500 British peacekeepers by 1948.
Early on, by 1920, the Arab Jews and Arab Christians has organized to protest the alarming immigration of Jews from Russia, Eastern Europe etc because they didn't speak Arabic and looked down on the natives as inferior. .. and you know they were all socialists of one ilk or another and Bolsheviks to a man.
Contrast that to the Jewish exiles from Spain and Portugal who settled in Hebron about 1492.. They had no problems.. The difference was Zionism.
You can't blame Arab Jews for leaving the Arab countries.
They left in waves in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973.. and what a loss for the Arabs. Jews had lived and prospered all over the Arab world for 1500 years or more.
Zionism is to blame for what happened.
Exactly. A province; not a nation-state.
Then they're not Gazans. Gazan is not a nationality.
And were generally treated as second-class citizens wherever Muslims ruled. They were dhimmis, after all, with all the restrictions and removal of rights that entailed. Oh, and they had to pay the jizya.
Right; most of its history. Not all of its history. Israel has existed as a national entity in the past and the concept has some historical grounding. Palestinian nationalism, however, is merely a reaction to the establishment of Israel, and as such seems interwoven with anti-Semitism.
This is true, but it is also whataboutery. This does not excuse the Arabs' actions. Besides, the Jewish 'terror gangs' were fighting against colonialism. You'd think the likes of @Lyndon would be lavishing them with praise. But he doesn't and it's not hard to guess why...
Foolishness. Generally speaking refugees fleeing the Soviet Union were probably not Bolsheviks as they were fleeing Bolshevik anti-Semitism. You might as well call say German Jewish refugees were Nazis because they came from Germany.
The difference was the Jews having the audacity to want to govern themselves for a change because every non-Jewish majority they've lived among has rejected them. That includes Muslim ones.
I don't blame Arab Jews. I blame Arab Muslims for enacting laws in Algeria, Iraq and other countries that forced their Jewish populations out.
You talk of genocide but what of the forced expulsion & relocation of thousands of Jews from many Arab countries? Is the forced relocation of a population classed as a form of genocide; e.g. the Trail of Tears in the States?
While they left voluntarily from some Arab countries, they were expelled from others. And I'll agree to 'lived and prospered' with a caveat of 'being subjected to pogroms & forced conversions. Take the Damascus affair, for example. Yet another instance of the ages-old 'Jewish blood libel' being trotted out. And one of the accused escaped torture by converting to Islam.
No. Arab exceptionalism, intransigence & anti-Semitism are to blame. Why are the descendants of 'Palestinian' refugees allowed a right of return but Jewish descendants aren't? Why have the Arab countries forced the 'Palestinian' refugees to remain trapped in refugee camps rather than granting them full citizen rights as Israel has done with many Arabs?
What a completely biased and one sided view of a very complex issue!!!