I thought Isreal was created first; The palestinians and their territories were created after the fall of the Ottman Empire. Thus the palestinian people are really just refugees from the fall and were then ruled over by the British. So, weren't the Isrealites first and it is really their land?
2006-09-04 07:51:30 · 6 answers · asked by richard a 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Yes, and the Jews (48) paid for most of their land by buying swamp lands from the palestinians, far above market value, for it was against the law for palestinians to sell land to Jews. (gasp, discrimination). They drained the swamps and planted orchards and farming collectives known as kibbutzim.
After Israel declared its independence in 1948, it was invaded by all the surrounding arab countries in a land grab, (israel at this point was 3 disconnected strips of land). At the end of the Israeli war for independence, Israel had taken back land won in the war, in order to make a defensive barrier between israel and the other hostile nations.
The Israeli declaration of independence calls for equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel. Including arabs being voted into the Israeli parliament. How many Jews serve in the government of the surrounding arab countries? If Israel really was in a war of extermination against the arabs, then why do arabs serve in the Israeli parliament? It is only terrorists that Israel targets, and since terrorists love using human shields, civilians often get hit inadvertantly. The only difference is, Israelis specifically target terrorists and its infrastructure, the Palestinian terrorists specifically target civilians.
2006-09-04 08:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So weren't the native Americans(Indians) first in America and it's really their land?So if they would come now and tell u that the land your house is build in was theirs ancestors a few centuries ago I am sure that u will be glad to give them back...Even tough if they don't have any proof that is true...
The fact that 2000 years ago Jews(who seem to have nothing to do with the ones living today there),doesn't give them the right to claim that land...They left and it became Arab land...So,now I think that the only ones who have the right to claim that land are the Arabs...
2006-09-04 08:00:34 · answer #2 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on how far back in recorded history you want to go. Can't we all just get along? Not when some soldier comes along and bulldozes your house with your grandmother still in it. Not when the person sitting next to you on the bus is wearing a dynamite dress. It just doesn't matter anymore who was there first when you look at it from that perspective. Everybody should just go home and pray they don't get a nuclear warhead stuffed up their arses by that freak in Iran.
2006-09-04 08:07:39 · answer #3 · answered by josephine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in fact, the word, Palestine, was coined by the Roman Empire and simply dragged out of moth-balls by the British Empire.
2006-09-04 07:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are confusing ancient Israel with the false State of Israel created in 1948.
2006-09-04 08:01:06 · answer #5 · answered by Paladin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the jew took over palestine, first the took very little, than more and more, now the also have taken over the whole palestine
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian-apartheidlaws-lossofpalestinianland1946to2000.html
and the thing is, that no one know this is happening and it still is
2006-09-04 07:58:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋