On May 19, 9:01 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> jgarbuz<jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 19, 7:39 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On May 17, 6:01 pm, MissMiss <lilhor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> "None Dare Call It =91Appeasement=92 "
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> >> >> BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'S CRIMINAL INTRANSIGENCE, WE'LL BE HAVING THIS
> >> >> ARGUMENT FOR AT LEAST THE BALANCE OF THIS CENTURY. NEITHER ISRAEL
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> >> >> ITS MUSLIM NEIGHBORS CAN EVER BE RECONCILED.
> >> >> THEY DON'T WISH TO BE.<
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> >> > It's not Israel's criminal intransigence but its enemies' refusal
to
> >> > accept Jewish rights to Jewish land that is the core of the
problem.
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> >> Where did the Israelis get any "right" to the lands
> >> they hold?<
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> > From the League of Nations in 1922 at the San Remo conference.
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> Were the people who were living on the land get any
> voice in who it was being "awarded" to?<
No. Why should they have been? They were an insignificant part of the
defeated Ottoman Empire which had allied itself with Germany and
Austria-Hungary in WWI. The League of Nations created many entities
not always to the satisfaction of local residents. You can't please
everyone. WHy should 700,000 Arabs in 1922 stand in the way of 9
million displaced JEws who had been kicked around for 2 millenia? The
Arabs were eventually given 21 states on 3 million square miles of
land conquered by Britain in WWI. If Britain wanted to give this tiny
strip of land, barely 10,000 square miles square back to the Jewish
people, why shouldn't they have had the right to do just that? They
conquered it fair and square. And the League confirmed that decision
in 1920 and thereby made it international law in 1922. Just like a
decision from the UN Security Council. Nevertheless, the Mandate did
try to secure the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish
inhabitants. No private Arab properties was taken from them, until
1948 due to the war. But between 1917 and 1947, some 30 years, the
Jews took away not one square inch from any Arab landowner. But the
war of 1948 changed things, because the Arabs attacked with the hope
of destroying the Jewish settlement, and instead ended up causing
725,000 Arabs to become refugees. But that was 30 years after the
fact.
And then came 650,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab countries to
Israel. So it was a population exchange. That's all.
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