Reply #69: But why? In America, that's racism.

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When minorities move into "WHITE" neighborhoods, buy homes/land there, and eventually become the majority, what's wrong with that?

They're not disenfranchising, dispossessing, or expelling any of the whites. So why is it wrong for Jews to do that in Brooklyn NY, USA or parts of Israel (where they were the majority in 1948 at the time of the partition plan). Even if Jews are the majority in Brooklyn, what does that matter? Maybe a Jew becomes mayor but what's the threat? Same for parts of Israel, Realize there are about 2 MILLION Jews in metropolitan NYC now. Who are they threatening?

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As for people being unable to "defend" themselves, what would native Arabs be defending? Jews weren't coming to attack, expel, disposess, or disenfranchise them. If they "feared" the Jews, the OTTOMAN empire was still in charge when Zionism started and could "defend" the natives easily from the Jews.

1. I'm assuming you agree it's ridiculous to accuse early Zionists of plotting to engage and ultimately drive out the Ottoman Turks from Israel.
2. I'm also assuming you agree that there was nothing particularly unjust about the partition plan.

As to your last question, the problem wasn't Jewish immigration during Ottoman rule but afterwards, right? During Ottoman rule, the Turks controlled Jewish immigration. Afterwards, Israel was already declared a Jewish homeland by the League of Nations (at the same time a Palestinian majority in Jordan was rewarded with Hashemite rule). You're asking if the natives within a Jewish homeland were just as leery of allowing mass immigration as any other nation in the world at that time. The situations are different, aren't they? Israel was already declared the Jewish homeland, those other countries worldwide were not. I'm betting if polled, MOST Palestinians within Israel pre-1948 would have been FOR allowing Jews in from Poland, Germany, etc... knowing what Jews were facing there and having nowhere else to go. Only a loud minority of hostile extremists led by the Nazi Al-Hussayni would have been against that. Agree or disagree?