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Originally Posted by Antipas
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.
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Where this hypothetical fails is that there were already millions of Jews living in Palestine and when the UN partitioned the land they did so by the enclaves of where Jews/Arabs lived. Take a look at the original partition. That's why it is so hodge-podge. They didn't just draw a line across a map and say "here it is" they divided it according to where people were already settled. the scenario of bulldozers coming over and knocking down daddy's tabacco and coffee shop didn't happen.
The Jews that lived in Palestine with the Arabs suffered persecution for years prior to the English taking control of that area after WWI. Under the English they enjoyed some respite from the violence against them. But as soon as the English relinquished its control, the Arabs went to war. Those are the facts. The Jews had just as much right to a claim on some of that land as the Arabs, the Arabs didn't want to share. They went to war, lost every time, and to the victoe go the spoils, only Israel didn't "spoil" their enemies. they gave back the Sinai (rich in oil and other natural resources) to the Egyptians, they gave back the West Bank and Gaza, they have made other concessions and compromises onjly to have the Arabs kill more and demand more.
And BTW, Einstein would agree with me.
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