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Originally Posted by finnbow
I'm saying that the entire land of Israel was bestowed upon them by the UN, including the land within the borders of the new Israel upon which Palestinians had lived for generations. After Palestinians fled from the dangers of the 1948 war, Israel passed a law in 1951 to appropriate their land, thereby creating Palestinian refugee camps all over the region, including Gaza.
As for stated goals of the respective parties, the stated goal of the Netanyahu coalition is to not recognize a Palestinian state on the West Bank and/or Gaza. In fact, a significant part of his coalition insist upon taking all of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), notwithstanding the fact that over 2 million Palestinian Arabs live there.
Despite your outraged responses to my posts, I'm not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel. I'm against the status quo, which includes the inexorable construction of settlements on the West Bank and the attendant periodic "mowing the lawn" in Gaza (with our money and weapons).
Here's an interesting piece that shows it's possible to be pro-Israel, yet be against Netanyahu's policies. Strangely, it's possible to hold such views in Israel (though less so in the midst of the current war), whereas having these same views here in the USA is labelled as anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/op...pora-jews.html |
I have no beef with your last paragraph.
As far as rights to dirt in the holy land...Jews have just as legitimate an historical basis for a claim to a share of that dirt as do muslims. Muslims however, historically do not appear interested in sharing a square inch of this dirt with a single Jew.
Witness Israel's providing control of the Temple Mount to Muslims after Israel took control of the West Bank in 1967, as opposed to Muslim refusal to allow Jews access to the Wailing Wall, and Muslim desecration of Jewish cemeteries in the West Bank between 1948 and 1967.