Reply #86: Shira - Thank you for agreeing with me on this one......We are making progress at last!

[kayecy]

1. That the Zionists planned massive immigration into Palestine in spite of the wishes of the natives.
Yes, the Zionists planned massive immigration into Palestine. Why? Because of evil, colonialist, racist reasons? No. In spite of the wishes of Arab natives? Yes, some but certainly not all.

Thank you Shira, for agreeing with me on this one......We are making progress at last!

2. That the natives had as much right to resist mass Jewish immigration as any other people would have resisted it. (You remember how the US treated the S.S. St. Louis?)
Antisemites have no right to hate and attack Jews for no other reason than that they're Jews. If Jews were really there with evil intent to be racist and colonialist, disposess, disenfranchise, and expel Arabs that's one thing. But they weren't, were they? So no, there was no great reason to "resist" and go to war against the Jews.

Lets take your answer bit-by-bit:

Antisemites have no right to hate and attack Jews for no other reason than that they're Jews.....

I am in complete agreement with you.

If Jews were really there with evil intent ........ disposess, disenfranchise, and expel Arabs that's one thing........

Didn't the Zionists buy farmed land from absentee landlords and then kick the Palestinians peasants off it?......Isn't that disposessing them?
Didn't the Zionists have every intention to become the majority.....Isn't that disenfranchisement of the natives?

So no,there was no great reason to "resist" and go to war against the Jews......

So if we take a modern day analogous situation:.....Suppose, tired of being refugees, 100,000 Palestinians managed to enter Israel today and turned up to claim their villages......According to your logic, there would be no great reason for the IDF to go to 'war' against the Arabs and expel them from Israel?.