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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
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.
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The "majority" of it? I find this hard to believe....
I'm sure the one guy who sold it made off well, but it also resulted in the eviction of Arab tennent farmers, who at one point or another may have owned the land they were being removed from.
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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,
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I agree, but I believe a feeling of nationalism came about as a RESULT of the immigration, as a result of feeling threatened by the Jews who they definitely hated and saw as a disease, I'll admit.
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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.
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I don't disagree, and I think Israel is far more progressive in many ways, at least within their boards, than most other states, including America.
However, lets not forget that the Arabs likewise have a strong history and culture that isn't as backward and barbaric as I seem to think you're implying.
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Any attempt to downplay such truths plays into hate speak, and anti-Jewish revitionism.
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Call it revisionist if you like, but why in the name of God is it anti-Jewish??? Why is ANY criticism levied against Israel antisemetic?? WHY!?