Damn Realist,
I thought you converted to Judahism.
Shalom
Palestinians have no unique culture, no language known as Palestinian, and are indistinguishable from Jordanians, Syrians or Iraqis for that matter. In fact, the term was given to the region by Rome after a smashing blow was delivered to in 70AD. This was merely a psychological attempt to erase the Jewish culture and identity by naming it after a people who the Jews conquered centuries before. By the time of the Jewish revolt and the Roman victory, the Philistines had long been extinct as a people.
So why is there no outcry when Britian created other nations in the post war years of 1919? According to the UN mandate principle of paragraphs 1 and 2 of ARTICLE 22 OF THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS:
1. To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
2. The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League.
The region was made up of little more than waring tribal entities. Britian choose the mose capable of them and made them nations, plain and simple
before the first WW the territory was inhabited almost exclusively by arabs. it is as much a sovereign territory as egypt, jordan etc..
Not true.
"Still, Jews persisted in Jerusalem , even numbering around 40,000 by the turn of the 20th century, while arabs numbered only around 7000." - Travel Guide To Palestine and Syria, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker. The book also says, "The number of Jews has risen greatly in the last few decades in spite of the fact that they are forbidden to immigrate or to possess landed property."
The reality is that the Arabs poured into Israel after the 1967 war when they took care of business in a very surprising crushing defeat over several invading Arab nations. The irony is that the quality of life and degree of freedom was better for Arabs in Israel than in many of their their native countries. Only then did we start hearing about Israeli bigotry and how Jerusalem was Islams holiest of cities. It was all propaganda. If Jerusalem was so damn holy to them, why werent there more of them there?
During that war, a
ccording to official records of the League of Nations and Arab census figure 539,000 Arabs left Israel at the urging of 7 converging Arab armies so that they would not be in the way of their attack. They promised the fleeing Arabs they would return and move into the Jews' houses after the anticipated successful annihilation of the Jews.
We know that 850,000 Jews were ejected from the Arab countries where they had lived for hundreds of years. This included successful people whose property and assets, including community assets were immediately confiscated. 750,000 penniless Jews from Arab countries fled to Israel.
This was a virtual exchange of population. The Jewish refugees were immediately accepted by the new State of Israel. They were provided with shelter (albeit temporary tents) food and clothing.
The Arab refugees who had migrated to various Arab nations were not similarly well received. They were regarded not as Arab brothers but as unwelcome migrants who were not to be trusted. - Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator
An honest review of history reveals that the British made the best choice about who was most qualified to govern Israel (palestine). Doubtless other bedouin tribes got left out of the leadership role in their territories than became sovereign nations. Why then are they not hollering and screaming about the loss of their supposed sovereignty?
Simple.... religious bigotry by the Arabs. Arab nations have left the Palestinian people to suffer and to foster hatred toward their government because of a cultural difference.
The "Palestinian" leadership has been playing the same shell game that Saddam has been playing, saying one thing and doing another. They make agreements with Israel and then continue to blow up women and children with bombs and scream oppression when Israel acts to protect its national interests. The Arabs want to destroy Israel....end of story.
I have absolutely no respect for Arafat and his murderous campaign of terror on the Jewish people, especially after he rejected the land for peace deal that Clinton helped broker at the last summit at Camp David.
the solution would be to remove the settlements from arab territory and give the palestinians their long deserved state. if they would continue to attack israel than israel could close the borders as they do already (including a wall around the arab territories)
They have already attempted to do this several times. Next suggestion?
