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Kevin - Areas like Jaffa were undeveloped land. The majority of what became Israel was unoccupied. What little land that was purchased, was sold to Jews at TEN TIMES the market rate in the United States for top notch land. Villages like Hebron always had a Jewish majority before Arabs killed them off. There were always Jewish Palestinians. There were ALWAYS Jews living in that land. There are semetic Jews. Many Jewish familys go back as far or farther then Arab faimlys. Israel was not colonized by Europeans. The mandate areas were carving up ARABIC land.... Palestinians were part of a pan-Arabism nation, viewing themselves as part of the same nation as Jordan, etc. Jewish refugees exiled from Arabic land were relocated to parts of Israel once partially owned by Arabs in an acceptable and legal manner. The land was Arabic land, not Palestinian land. The term "Palestinian" was never indigenous to a specific people. Arab Palestinians were pawns of Arab ogligarchies and monarchies, and their mistreatment was at the hands of some of the most corrupt regimes on the planet. While hundreds of billions of Arab petrodollars have created vast palaces for the ruling elite and a third world for the rest, Jewish philanthropy took a socialist ethic to create a Western standard of living out of a territory that consisted of nothng but a few fenced in collective farms, and poverty stricken villages.

Any attempt to downplay such truths plays into hate speak, and anti-Jewish revitionism.