thichi,
first of all i was talking about the west bank and the gaza strip...but since you broadened the topic...
where do you always find this nonsense and biased articles???
Jewish independence in the Land of Israel lasted for more than 400 years. This is much longer than Americans have enjoyed independence in what has become known as the United States. 4 In fact, if not for foreign conquerors, Israel would be 3,000 years old today.
for instance what is the point of this statement? if the jews wouldn'T have overrun whoever lived in that region prior to them than that state would now be 3400 years old! so what??? can every nation who lost a territory back in history (in this case almost 2000 !!!!!!!!! years ago) claim back that land? can the indians claim back their land from the US? can the germans claim back their land from the poles? can the italians claim back their empire??? claiming that jews have the right to be there because it was originally jewish land (2000 years ago!!!!) is pure bullshit.
Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:
this is the next completely irrelevant and stupid argument...becasue there was no paletinian state the arabs have no right to the land. what kind of logic is that? is that the same logic that allowed the europeans to whipe out the indians? just because it was not an independend state doesn'T mean you can deport the people from their land! the arabs surely didn'T want to be ruled by jews.
Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank.
of course it is a post WWI phenomenon....prior to that time there was no threat to arabs of loosing their land.
now here are some real FACTS!
around 1910 there were 20.000 jews in the area and over 500.000 arabs.
in 1946 the numbers were as follows:
so exactly what right do the jews have to annex lets say the part of the country that was inhabited by over 90% arabs???