Yes what happend to the jews during the holocaust was sad but what can justify uprooting thousands of families that lived their for thousands of years and had legitimate ownership of the land to move? they did nothing wrong so why should they have to move? Under what justification can someone do something like this?
2006-08-23 19:19:59 · 9 answers · asked by Darkness 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Clyde S- no the romans kicked them out....not the arabs
2006-08-24 09:28:05 · update #1
the arabs were actually in that area since the 1200s so maybe I exaggerated a little but they ceartainly were there long before 1917
2006-08-24 09:29:02 · update #2
it was wrong - more countries could have opened their borders to take the Jews after WW II.
2006-08-23 19:26:45 · answer #1 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same justification used by the Arabs when they threw all of their Jews out in the same time period.
Arabs only populated the land that would become Israel after the Arab Uprising against the Ottomans in 1917. They weren't there for thousands of years.
Most the Arabs left on their own when the 1948 war started. They were sure that Israel would be crushed and that they'd be able to come home soon. Surprise!
Speaking of justifying actions - How can you justify the House of Saud driving the Hashemites out of Mecca and the League of Nations dividing Israel into Israel and Trans-Jordan to give the Hashemites a new home in Amman? Why is it right for one group of Muslims to displace another but wrong for Israel to do the same?
2006-08-24 02:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jews lived in the holy land thousands of years ago, giving them a strong claim to the land. It therefore made sense to create a state for the Jews on the Jewish homeland. At least, the UN thought it was a good location. The father of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, had actually been thinking about Uganda as a good location.
After Israel declared Independence, the surrounding Arab countries immediately declared war on the fledgling state. The Arab countries told the local Arabs (who were not called Palestinians yet) to leave their homes so that the Arab countries could more easily destroy the Jews. The local Arabs could then return after the job had been done.
Well, the heinous job never did get done. The Arab countries started war after war on Israel, and Israel won every one of them. During the course of these wars, Israel won the territories and the Golan Heights fair and square as the spoils of wars they themselves did not start.
In the meantime, Jews legally bought a lot of land from local Arabs.
The Arabs who had left their homes to aid in the destruction of Israel decided to bolster their claim to the land they had left, and so invented a new nationality for themselves: Palestinian. In PLO documentation, this is very clearly stated to be a mere tactic in the battle against Israel.
2006-08-24 02:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by Victoria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the area we know today as israel and palestine was nearly deserted. Only when the Jews came in and made it flourish did the palestinians come in from different nearby nations and make a claim.
2006-08-24 02:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had to leave Israel because Israel was created after World War II.
2006-08-24 02:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by martin s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get to the other side.
2006-08-24 02:25:18 · answer #6 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the british made 'em. look it up.
2006-08-24 02:25:53 · answer #7 · answered by altgrave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to go fishing
2006-08-24 02:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
thank the english for that!!
2006-08-24 02:27:49 · answer #9 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋