We should ask whether the Palestinians are native to the land where Israel now exists.
"The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. The civil and tribal wars between Yemenites (from Yemen) and Kessites (from Banu Kais of Saudi Arabia) ... are well known among Palestinians.
"My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants."
- Walid, a Palestinian Arab defector, talking about the recent immigration of Arabs to Palestine.
The current PLO and Arab claim (and mainstream media regurgitation of it) is indeed a very distorted version of `recorded history' and can only qualify as pure Orwellian propaganda. In fact, putting aside all the myths and propaganda, the only area that would qualify historically as truly Arab land, is the Arabian desert peninsula. Unfortunately, it seems that Goebbels was correct in stating that if a lie were repeated often enough, it would come to be "perceived" as truth.
No doubt, some Arabs have lived in the area of the Mandate of Palestine for many centuries, but not as many of them as had the Jews. What is more, Jews had lived in Arab lands since times preceding Islam itself. And yet, these Jews in Arab lands were never regarded as citizens of the Arab lands they lived in and were unceremoniously expelled in the years subsequent to Israel's establishment. In other words, residency alone did not confer national rights on those who inhabited an area. Nor did it make a people out of congeries of Arabs and other nationalities that had come to the area of the Mandate of Palestine while the Jewish people were restricted. The nations of the world recognized this after World War I when the League of Nations determined that the geographical area called Palestine was to become a homeland for the Jewish people, the people that had been continuously associated with this land since ancient times when it was known as Judea and Samaria.
- David Basch
So why did so many Arabs end up in Palestine?
During the British Mandate, even well into the 1940s, Arabs were allowed into "Palestine" in huge numbers without visa or passport, especially from the Hauran District of Syria, while the British continued to do everything possible to prevent Jews from entering, even down to the last minute when all attempts were made to deny entry to thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Only in 1948 were Jewish refugees allowed free entry to their homeland, and that was because Israel had, once again, become an independent nation.
[The Arabs of Ottoman Palestine may have] had certain attachments to the fields they were cultivating but at the same time they were destroying the Land. Parkes stated that "in the wars between villages it was far too common a practice to cut down fruit trees and olives and to destroy crops, and this in the end caused as much loss of life through hunger as was caused by the actual casualties of fighting". He concluded that "in spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times".
Palestinian leaders claim that Israel is built on Arab land, when the truth is that eyewitnesses such as Mark Twain and Rev. Manning of England who visited the Holy Land in the last century wrote that the land was barren and empty. The population then was less that 5% of today's population.
In fact, Joan Peters in her book "From Time Immemorial" tells us that the return of the Jews in 1800's and early 1900's created jobs and Arabs from impoverished areas were drawn into the Holy Land for work. Peters also tells us that in 1948 so many Arabs were new to the area and could not qualify for the UN requirement for refugee status (people forced to leave "permanent" or "habitual" homes) that they added a clause permitting refugee status for Arabs who had been there as little as two years.
Thus the Zionist slogan "The Land without a people for the people without a land" was absolutely correct. The slogan did not mean that there were no inhabitants at all in Palestine, it just indicated that the non-Jewish population constituted a conglomeration of dozens of heterogeneous groups of residents having very little in common, i.e. not constituting a single nation, a people. These residents were not united by any specific national idea. Parkes wrote that the Balfour declaration for the first time established a "unit called Palestine on a political map. ...There was no such thing historically as a 'Palestinian Arab', and there was no feeling of unity among 'the Arabs' of this newly defined area".
2006-12-06 19:59:02
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answered by Anonymous
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Zionism is a kin to Nazism point blank. The jews in Isreal should be ashamed of themselves.
The land of "Israel" should be split in half. The northern half would be Palestine and the southern half Israel.
In the middle occupying Jerusalem would be the new U.N. HQ with a corridor that divides these lands from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. Stationed there should be 200,000 man Rapid Reaction Force capable of delivering a serious smack down to ANYONE in the region that acts out of line.
This solution creates peace in the region and gets the U.N. out of New York .
2006-12-08 05:30:46
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answered by Anonymous
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You people should be ashamed of yourselves to even utter the words that Israel doesn't fully belong to the Jews. ISRAEL IS THE JEWISH LAND AND STATE! The entire problem in Israel today is caused by death loving Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians, Syrians, and Lebanese. There can only truly be peace when all Muslim and Arab people alike are completely wiped out and destroyed.
The Jews have been living in Israel for thousands of years and no Palestinian dog has the right to say otherwise. Shame on the haters of Jews and Israel!
2006-12-09 17:58:01
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answered by randyj4ever 4
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I do not care who lived there 2000 years ago...Based on this principle let's all give the countries we live in to the people who used to live there 2000 years ago...I am so sure we all would do this if someone would ask us to...Plssss
There were Arabs living there for the past centuries.Jews had absolutely no right to go there and kick them out of their houses and land,UK had absolutely no right to give something that doesn't belonged to them...
But unfortunately the problem exists and it's way to late to give the land only to one nation.So we have to find solutions that would be favorable for both,the Palestinians and Israelis...
2006-12-10 02:23:16
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answered by Tinkerbell05 6
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When they abandoned the land all those centuries ago, other people took over ownership. What the Palestinians didn't like was that they were kicked off their land, out of their houses, not given a red cent in compensation, and it was all given to make a place called Israel. You first need to understand how valuable land is in the culture. There is more to it than politics. It's a whole cultural issue.
2006-12-06 18:50:50
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answered by Eaglesguy 2
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The Jews didn't steal it - the British stole it - and then gave it to the Jews. Israel was a poorly concieved idea to give Jews a home after WWII that has caused more than half a century of violence in the middle east. That being said, I don't have a solution to the violence in the middle east today.
2006-12-06 18:43:33
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answered by phil 3
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The land was not the "jews" the land was the Israelis and that was a thousand years ago.
If I leave a toy in the side of the road because part of it broke off and come back a year later and someone else has take that toy and fixed it and is using it, am I then justified in demanding it back and foolishly accusing anyone who doesnt agree of being an anti semite.
All arabs are semites, not just the israelis.
2006-12-06 22:30:37
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answered by Perplexed 7
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Because people will believe anything to justify their animosity towards Jews.
Any way you make the argument, from a historical standpoint, from a moral standpoint, from a legal standpoint...
It's clear that Israel belongs to the Jews.
"Palestinian-ism" is just today's anti-Semitism.
2006-12-07 13:35:53
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answered by mo mosh 6
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Well, they kinda did - the bulk of the original Israelites left Palestine after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. The modern Zionist movement was founded in Austria-Hungary at the turn of the century by European Jews. They sent colonial settlers to Palestine starting in the late 1890's, up until World War II. After the war, the Zionists organized mass immigration of European Jews to Palestine.
But, for several hundred years prior to the advent of Zionism, there was an Arab population of Palestine, and it was their country, until the armed terrorist wing of the Zionist movement came to power in Palestine in 1948, and stole the bulk of the country from the Arabs - with the remainder of Palestine stolen by the Israeli Defense Force in 1967.
So, yes, Israel is built on stolen Arab land.
2006-12-06 18:33:56
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answered by Anonymous
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the Jew's where not living in Palestine before the British occupation of the middle east in fact the British prime minister at that time promised the Jewish minister of defense that GB was going to give them Palestine so they can build there own country then.
Palestine has been the home of Muslims since sallah ad-din's time (see kingdom of heaven and you will notice that the only the Jews has been a minority in that area since then)
2006-12-06 18:40:25
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answered by hasasm 2
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