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[Buffalo Roam]

Why would anyone want to "let it happen"?

In which fantasy world does 7% of the population get a country by displacing 93% of the native population on the basis of religion, because the 7% belongs to a group who thinks they "deserve it"?

Would the Israelis want to let it happen today? Would they accept it if they were treated as they treated the Palestinians? Would you support the Palestinians if they did so?



Apparently, its teh international flavour of teh moment:


Israeli settlement growth nearly doubles since 2007

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, seen as a major barrier to US-backed peace talks, has nearly doubled since 2007, an Israeli watchdog said Tuesday.

In a report published during the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice the settlement watchdog Peace Now said settlement building in the first half of 2008 was double that in the same period last year.


Israel settlement surge draws Rice criticism

UN slams new Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement plan angers Palestinians

Palestinian herders hard-hit by drought, Israeli restrictions


Israeli settlement building undermines peace process: EU

Would you want a neighbor like that?

Yes in SAM's fantasy world, 95% of the Palestinian Mandate goes to the Arabs and it's the Jews who are begrudged the 5% land.

The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Islamic countries. The migration started in the late 19th century, but accelerated after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. According to official Arab statistics, 856,000 Jews were driven from their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Some 600,000 resettled in Israel. Their descendants, and those of Iranian and Turkish Jews, now number 3.06 million of Israel's 5.4 to 5.8 million Jewish citizens.

While violence and discrimination against Jews in Arab countries started to increase several years before 1948, it escalated significantly starting in 1948 despite the fact that Jews were indigenous and for the most part held Arab citizenship. Sometimes the process was state sanctioned; at other times it was the consequence of anti-Jewish resentment by non-Jews. Harassment, persecution and the confiscation of property followed. Secondly and in response to mistreatment of Jews in these countries.

Let the Palestinians have the land the Jews were forced to abandon in the Arab Countries, fair exchange for Israel.

Estimates that Jewish property in Arab countries would be valued today at more than $300 billion and Jewish-owned real-estate left behind in Arab lands at 100,000 square kilometers (four times the size of the State of Israel).

I wouldn't want any Moslem neighbor like you, the Arabs or Palestinians.

 

[S.A.M.]

I wouldn't want any Moslem neighbor like you, the Arabs or Palestinians.

Take teh Israelis. And get out of the Middle East. No one invited either of you there.

 

[Buffalo Roam]

Take teh Israelis. And get out of the Middle East. No one invited either of you there.

Not your decission, Indian.

 

[S.A.M.]

Not your decission, Indian.

If you come to the Middle East, you will have Arabs. And Muslims.

As for Indians, don't worry, we know how to get what we want.

 

[Kadark]

That's a great photo of me.


Kadark

 

[pjdude1219]

Yes in SAM's fantasy world, 95% of the Palestinian Mandate goes to the Arabs and it's the Jews who are begrudged the 5% land.

well that would have been more in line with the population.

 

[Buffalo Roam]

If you come to the Middle East, you will have Arabs. And Muslims.

That should be a obvious fact even for you, but you forgot the Jews.

As for Indians, don't worry, we know how to get what we want.

Still not your decision Indian or have you now become a Arab?, and as to India, it seem completely at ease making treaties to accepting Israel Weapon Technology.

 

[S.A.M.]

you forgot the Jews.

What do the Jews have to do with the Middle East? Most of them are Europeans or Americans.

 

[pjdude1219]

That should be a obvious fact even for you, but you forgot the Jews.

Do you mean the relatively small number of native jews or the majority that came WW2?

 

[CptBork]

There are 6 million+ jews living in the middle east, most of them born there. That's what they have to do with the middle east.

 

[S.A.M.]

There are 6 million+ jews living in the middle east, most of them born there. That's what they have to do with the middle east.

Born there after colonisation of the natives. Lets look up their grandparents. Bet most of them are from Russia or Europe. Besides, genetically, they are Turks or Armenians, not Middle Easterners. Asian immigrants. What do they have to do with the Middle East? They want to be a western nation. They should move west.

 

[Buffalo Roam]

That's a great photo of me.

Kadark

Actually I picture you more as this:

 

[pjdude1219]

There are 6 million+ jews living in the middle east, most of them born there. That's what they have to do with the middle east.

Were not talking about now were talking about 48. and most of the modern population are decendent of people who came to the region after the minority(The jews) were given the right of self-determination while the majority was denied it.(The palestinians)

 

[Buffalo Roam]

well that would have been more in line with the population.

Guess what sweet heart, it was.

 

[CptBork]

Again, there are plenty of genetic studies saying you're wrong. Even the study you posted before showed the jews had ties to Israel as well as other parts of the world. Nice selective choice of facts there, perhaps we should look at the Palestinians' Saudi roots and the immigration to Israel from neighbouring arab countries prior to 1948. Oh no, of course, all Palestinians descend exclusively from folks who lived there since the Big Bang.

 

[S.A.M.]

Nope, Palestinians are still more than Israelis, they simply have had their homes taken by the Europeans.

 

[Kadark]

Buffalo Roam,

I'm not sure what gave you that idea ... :bugeye:

Here's a picture of me, painted a year or two ago. My beard's really coming in, isn't it?

Kadark

 

[CptBork]

Were not talking about now were talking about 48. and most of the modern population are decendent of people who came to the region after the minority(The jews) were given the right of self-determination while the majority was denied it.(The palestinians)

The jews declared independence on land they obtained through peaceful means, not even the land the UN offered them in 1947. The arabs attacked, they lost, now they want a mulligan.

 

[Buffalo Roam]

Do you mean the relatively small number of native jews or the majority that came WW2?

No I mean the, 856,000 Jews were driven from their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s, of which some 600,000 resettled in Israel. Their descendants, and those of Iranian and Turkish Jews, now number 3.06 million of Israel's 5.4 to 5.8 million Jewish citizens.

Sweet Heart.

The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Islamic countries. The migration started in the late 19th century, but accelerated after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. According to official Arab statistics, 856,000 Jews were driven from their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Some 600,000 resettled in Israel. Their descendants, and those of Iranian and Turkish Jews, now number 3.06 million of Israel's 5.4 to 5.8 million Jewish citizens.

 

[pjdude1219]

Guess what sweet heart, it was.

LOL

another factual swing and a miss for you. No the land was divided by including expected incoming imagrants as natives. I'm not gay and even if i was i have higher standards than to be with you so please refrain from hitting on me.