Reply #109: You're still not admitting you're wrong and you're not answering all my questions.

[shira]

For example, from my last post:

Tell me, if instead of making up 11% of the population in 1922, Jews made up 40% of the total population, would more Jewish immigration have been justified? What if Jews made up 60% of the population in Israel in 1922? Would adding more Jews in hopes of achieving a greater majority have also been wrong? At what point would mass Zionist immigration have been justified, in your view?

You also claimed Zionists deprived Palestinians of self-determination. How so?

Why do you think Palestinians would have been better off minus the Zionists and under fascist Mufti rule instead?

Do you still believe Zionists seeking refuge were in reality colonialists who generally had ill intent towards Palestinians?

Why is the Mufti and his followers considered innocent and defenseless in your view?

You said earlier that Israel would never allow tens or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flood Israel, but Israel has offered citizenship to East Jerusalemites and the people of Ghajar (which is now being turned over to Lebanon). All those people could choose to move inside central Israel and do as Zionists did 80 years ago. You think Israel would react as violently towards them as fascists like the Mufti did?

If you were in charge instead of Al Hussayni would you have strongly "resisted" all the colonialist Zionists coming in to rob, dispossess, and disenfranchise the indigenous population? Or would you have insisted that hundreds of thousands of MORE Jews come to Palestine to be saved from antisemitic Europe? You have a choice now, either to save hundreds of thousands of innocents from Nazi fascism or assign them to their deaths by turning these "colonialist robbers" away. For the record, what would you have done? I await your response.

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And just as you admit Jewish immigration would have resulted in making things better for the US economy, the same is true for Palestine. Rather than being dispossessed, a claim you are STILL making despite the numbers, Arab Palestinians owned more than twice the amount of land by the end of the Mandate as they did at the beginning. The economy, health, education, etc...for Palestinians were all better as a result of the Zionists, thus a win/win situation. Certainly better than life under Mufti fascist rule with sharia law, etc...