http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast40_years
I thought Egypt, Jordan, and Syria fought Israel in '67... Why are "palestinians" marking this event? Shouldn't Syrians, Jordanians, and Egyptians be marking it?
2007-06-05 08:45:59 · 13 answers · asked by nom de paix 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Anyone living in British Mandate Palestine was a "Palestinian" including every Jew and Christian, so technically there are thousands of Jewish and Christian "Palestinians" living in Israel today. Check out Joan Peters book "From Time Immemorial" if you want an eye-opening history of the region. She went into the project as a confirmed pro-Arabist but the facts she faced in her research turned her around 180 degrees. Also, as a "minor" technicality, the re-birth of Israel after two thousand years of exile and dispersal has no precedent in recorded history, and should be considered as the liberation of the Jewish homeland...making the Arabs the "occupiers". The left-wingers who are so hot on "liberation" should be supporting Israel, not the Arab occupation regimes. But then the Arabs have the oil and the trendy lefties in New York and Paris need that for their Beemers... :-)
2007-06-05 09:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The palestinians were dumped in to Israel because Syria, Jordan and Egypt didn't want them. Jordan even killed between 10,000 and 20,000 in one month, it was called Black September. The palestinians never existed until 1948 and in the 60s, an Egyptian named Yaser Arafat called himself a palestinian and self proclaimed himself their leader.
They have been living the lie ever sense 1948 and it's a long running murder spree of Israelis.
2007-06-05 16:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
West bank (of the Jordan River) and Gaza Strip were set aside for a Palestinian homeland. Palestine was given to the Jews by act of the UN for a homeland and those displaced were given land here in compensation. All went away when Jordan started shelling Jerusalem.
2007-06-05 15:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Palestinians are basically Jordanians who didn't get out of Israel in 47. It's all political BS.
2007-06-05 15:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by John L 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Egypt, Syria and Jordan were not occupied by Israel after the war, but the Gaza strip (formerly part of Palestine) was.
2007-06-05 15:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by Steve C 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because "Palestinians" get more sympathy for marking the event.
2007-06-05 15:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont know how Israel can be occupiers when Palestine didnt own the land.
There has never been a country of Palestine.
2007-06-05 15:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by sociald 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Egypt etc lost the war, the Palestinians lost the land
2007-06-05 15:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by mrrosema 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Illegal occupation by Nazi Israeli military.
U.S. on a Disastrous Course
Aid from Washington has effectively sustained the Israeli occupation
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-anniversary_thinkjun03%2C0%2C1997624.story
For Palestinians, the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War represents 40 years of freedom denied. For Israelis, it is a reminder that security and regional acceptance remain elusive after nearly six decades of statehood.
US Tax Dollars Pay For Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
http://bridgenews.org/news/americanjews
The U.S. government funds Israel's ongoing program to remove the native population of Palestine, primarily Muslims and Christians, and supplant them with European-American Jewish colonists. Our tax dollars facilitate this ethnic cleansing and colonization of Occupied Palestine.
Why do seemingly normal, middle class Jewish American families take part in genocidal ethnic cleansing?
2007-06-05 15:50:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Because Palestine is the only foreign country still occupying.
2007-06-05 15:50:46 · answer #10 · answered by Dustin G 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋