Robert Kolker wrote:
Ricardo wrote:


So the removal of some 2,000,000 arabs from Palestine in 1947/48 to
set up the Jewish State has nothing to do with this?


The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had as much to do with this "removal" as
did the Jews who founded the State of Israel. Many Arab speaking Muslims
and Christians removed themselves on the expectation and devout hope
that the Jews would be shortly wiped out or driven from the region. It
didn't work out that way. Sorry about that. Losing a war is such a bitch.

Bob Kolker

I wasn't taking sides, merely making an historical observation. Think of
it in terms of what you now call 'Native Americans' driving you off
their tribal homelands from which they were forcibly removed and
resettling them, and then bombing American cities when you tried to get
it back. At least the Native Americans have more moral right to do that
than the Israelis do with what they claim to be 'their' land.

Ricardo

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