Reply #91: "the Israelis"

[Gimel]

This is a broad generalization so I don't understand how the Israelis can say that the land belongs only to them, and the Palestinians have no rights there.

If you read that one Isreali settler said that, you cannot assume that all Israelis hold that opinion.


Actually, even one person who is a descendant of the land has a right to the land of his ancestors, so numbers don't matter in the question of right. Arabs today have the largest area in Palestine, and if you go back to the Ottoman Empire, it included Egypt as well as most of the peninsula.


The 1 million population that you quote is for all of Palestine, not just what is recognized as Israel today.


From your post:refuting the claim that they have a stronger title to the land than the Palestinians, who have been there continuously over the centuries.

As Arabs, the Palestinians are native to the land. They have not existed as a recognized national group until the last 30 years or so. Jewish rights to the land are not "stronger than" Arabs, but what land and how is it to be divided, that is the question. What are the borders? That has to be determined by negotiations. To say that Israelis don't a