Originally posted by Ned
Master Zen, AFAIK, there were no "Palestinians" until the British mandate as Palestine was an ancient Roman province that ceased to exist upon Arab conquest. The people who lived there over the centuries were mainly Arab, with a minority of Christians and Jews. Most recently the people came under the jurisdiction of the Turks in their adminstrative district known as Syria.
At the time the British mandate came into existence, Zionism had been under way for decades. Jews had settled all throughout the mandate. No one at that time divided off certain lands and gave it to the Jews. Any land they "had" was theirs for centuries or theirs by purchase.
In 1948, the UN (not the Brits) divided the mandate between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs and attacked the new Israeli state and were held back by the Jews, thereby creating the modern borders that form the basis of the 1967 UN resolutions.
These are the facts. No one cheated the Arabs out of any land. Your statement to this effect is blatantly racist.
Master Zen, AFAIK, there were no "Palestinians" until the British mandate as Palestine was an ancient Roman province that ceased to exist upon Arab conquest. The people who lived there over the centuries were mainly Arab, with a minority of Christians and Jews. Most recently the people came under the jurisdiction of the Turks in their adminstrative district known as Syria.
At the time the British mandate came into existence, Zionism had been under way for decades. Jews had settled all throughout the mandate. No one at that time divided off certain lands and gave it to the Jews. Any land they "had" was theirs for centuries or theirs by purchase.
In 1948, the UN (not the Brits) divided the mandate between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs and attacked the new Israeli state and were held back by the Jews, thereby creating the modern borders that form the basis of the 1967 UN resolutions.
These are the facts. No one cheated the Arabs out of any land. Your statement to this effect is blatantly racist.
and the 1900's. By your logic the Eupean Crusade's of the middle age never happen as there was no holy site to visit
in Jerm.
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