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In reply to the discussion: Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' - UN report [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)33. And most of the Israelis went to Israel because they were expelled from Europe.
There was this thing called the Holocaust. The Jews were removed from their homes, placed in concentration camps, and many, many of them, in fact, millions of them were killed.
Now THAT was ethnic cleansing.
And it followed centuries of persecution, centuries of it.
So, the world decided that they should have a place to go where they could feel safe.
At the time, the land to which they emigrated was a British Protectorate. Prior to its belonging in the British Protectorate Israel belonged to Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.
The idea of a Palestinian state is a recent invention.
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There are 2.7 million Palestinians in Jordan and 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon
azurnoir
Aug 2012
#15
True. If all Americans who are descended from immigrants had to return to the countries of their
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#27
And most of the Israelis went to Israel because they were expelled from Europe.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#33
Palestinians would have more of my sympathy if they showed a willingness to respect and
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#61
I can't believe I'm seeing what amounts to advocacy of ethnic cleansing on this board.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2012
#8
But the Palestinians were not persecuted for being Jewish. The Jews were -- for centuries.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#35
The modern state of Israel is the creation of the winners of WWII and is a vital part of the
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#59
I lived in Austria in a town that had been home to many Jews before the war.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#73
the reasoning that Israel somehow has the right to take land from Palestinians.
fascisthunter
Aug 2012
#90
They forfeited that when they supported those who tried to destroy Israel
Freddie Stubbs
Aug 2012
#67
There was plenty of room for everyone in 1948, but the Palestinians and their Arab allies refused
Freddie Stubbs
Aug 2012
#80
There was a partition plan created by the UN for both the Jews and the Arabs to have
Freddie Stubbs
Sep 2012
#92
But Israel cannot do that until the Palestinians agree to also end the violence.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#37
When the Palestinians decide to respect the human, civil and national rights of Israelis,
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#60
+10000 It's so ethnically cleansed of Palestinians that their numbers are exploding
wordpix
Aug 2012
#46
So two wars started by the Arabs, the last nearly 50 years ago, were the major cause
hack89
Aug 2012
#58
Don't you think continuous rocket attacks from Gaza contribute to the problem? nt
hack89
Aug 2012
#64
and the pro-Israel bigots now can say, "See... those filthy Palestinians should leave."
fascisthunter
Aug 2012
#88