dubbs wrote:
First, read my first post, the land is rightfully Israel's and Palestinians, all of it not just current borders of Israel. Abram claimed all of the land for himself, and his offspring.
well, i'd say so called "historical evidence" isn't the best thing to justify all the carnage that happened after israel was allowed to become a state. it's "practical consequenses" that should have been the deciding factor, not some "Abram"-dude, don't you think so?
Second, it was the British, not the US, that supported and allowed for Israel to become a state. You can trace the migration of Jew back to their homeland as far back as 1896, unlike the 1940's as you stated. Between 1896 to about 1933 there are five major migration periods for the Jewish people. Also, about 1940, 28% of the land was bought legitimately by Zionist organizations and private land owned by Jews. In 1939, Britian limited the about of Jews migrating to the area, and by 1947 the UN approves a partition of Palestine for Jewish and Arab states. The Jew accept this partition, but the Arabs reject it. Let me say that again, the Arabs rejected a partition to create both a Jewish and Arab states in the Middle East. (In my book, at that time, they gave up their rights to the land.)
yeah, yeah, that's right. but what if tomorrow <incert a name of people here> "legitimately buy" a portion of your homeland and and then some <insert a name of international political organisation> decide to split your own country just because "those poor bastards suffered enough under nazzis and need a place to live" - c'mon, will
you accept that scenario?
For those who did not know, until 1947, Britian controlled this area when the League of Nations gave them control of the region after WWI. The US may have supported an Israel state, mostly because USA had the 2nd largest populations of Jews. (Naturally Jews would want their homeland back.)
well, you just said that - the area was controlled by a kind of "theird party" and then some "League of Nations"-thing decided that if should be divided and each nation had to start to police itself. i'm sure you know what happened next: somehow jews thought that it wasn't cool enough to stay in the borders designated for them by league of nations while arabs didn't accept the partition at all... ever since, this bloody cauldron is boiling and boiling and i don't think it's gonna end any time soon.
so my point is - thinking that those nations full of religious extremists could co-exist in peace just by themselves
WAS a mistake, hands down. or, perhaps, it all was somekinda sinister plot, huh? - i dunno, but somehow it doesn't sound completely improbable...
edit: typo's
Last edited by Shahter (2006-07-17 04:43:01)
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