What Does Jesse Jackson Know That We Don't?

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Originally Posted by Antipas

Think about it Einstein... the UN partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians didn't choose to have their land partitioned. Also the Jews had long been at odds with the Palestinians and had made exclusive claim to the land of Palestine long before the 1948 partition. In a 15 July 1937 editorial, David Ben Gurion implied that partition could never be an acceptable long-term solution: 'The Jewish people have always regarded, and will continue to regard Palestine as a whole, as a single country which is theirs in a national sense and will become theirs once again. No Jew will accept partition as a just and rightful solution.' During the Zionist Congress, Ben Gurion supported the proposal to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. At the same time, he delivered speeches which made it clear that he did not accept partition as a final solution: 'If I had been faced with the question: a Jewish state in the west of the land of Israel in return for giving up on our historical right to the entire land of Israel I would have postponed the establishment of the state. No Jew is entitled to give up the right of the Jewish nation to the land. It is not in the authority of any Jew or of any Jewish body; it is not even in the authority of the entire nation alive today to give up any part of the land'... ...'this is a standing right under all conditions. Even if, at any point, the Jews choose to decline it, they have no right to deprive future generations of it. Our right to the entire land exists and stands for ever.'

Frankly, I think it's fair to question if the United Nations had the Zionists best interest at heart by partitioning the land and creating this mess. I'm sure it sounded like a good idea at the time, especially in the wake of the Holocaust....but taking land from people that they've had for generations, giving it to a Jewish state, and then mandating that everyone just play nice is a recipe for disaster.

Let's compare it to the following hypothetical....

Imagine with me that the UN decides to partition the United States. They draw a line across every state, dividing each state nearly in half. Then they declare that all land South of the dividing line in each state belongs to the the indigenous native American peoples. Suddenly Native Americans begin moving in and employ bull dozers to raze buildings so that they can build settlements. And let's imaging that you lived South of one of those lines and watched as your home, your family's business, and every memory of the life you know is completely destroyed and given to a Native American Indian. Now....you can't believe for one moment that if I told you to play nice and get a long that you would. Honey, it would be on and you know it. We'd be bombing them, calling on regional allies to assist us, etc. Just like the Palestinian people are doing.

The issue is that there is an acceptable hatred and racism against Palestinians in spite of the fact that the United Nations partitioned their land and handed land over to a people who were largely already settled in Europe for centuries.

I have heard stuff like this before. But, as you said, in teh wake of the holocaust the Jews did need a place to call home. It seems they could have found a better way. But both sides seem completley unwilling to give up "their" land. Is it true that Israel was willing to give 98% back to the Palestinians and they said no? Was this based on the temple mount? What were the circumstances?