Saying that Israel stole the land is tantamount to saying Israel does not have a right to exist. This was the justification by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi, and Jordan to assail the tiny state in 48, 56, 67, and 73. Included in all peace deals with Israel are the words, “Israel has a right to exist”.
We can relitigate history all we want, but the world must face the reality that ISRAEL IS NOT FOING ANYWHERE.
the original Palestinian mandate gave 3/4 of the previously controlled Ottoman Empire land to create Transjordan. The remaining bit was given to the UN by Britain to create both a Jewish and a Palestinian state. The split offered by the UN in 1947 gave 55% of the land to Israel, but 75% of that land was the Negev desert, where no one lived.
Israel accepted their partition, just as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Transjordan accepted their partitions. The only group that did not accept the partition plan are now known as Palestinians, but not so at the time. As Golda Meir states in an interview (can find on you tube), all people east and west of the Jordan were Palestinians - the whole region of the original British mandate.
The population of Arabs in what is now Israel increased by 500,000 between 1918-1947, as did the Jewish population, as Jews were creating arable land out of marshland to the north and desert to the south. Jewish ingenuity and technology attracted much of this migration.
Jews did not steal anything. The UN partitioned the land, the Jews said yes. The Arabs attacked, the Jews took more to be less vulnerable to future attacks. Most of the 700,000 Arabs of the Nakba fled because a war was going on in their homes - getting bombed by Syria and Egypt and Iraq and Lebanon and Jordan. They thought they’d be able to come back once Israel was destroyed. They were wrong.
So, the surrounding Arab nations were reluctant to take in the refugees, keeping them to stay in Israel, Gaza and West Bank so they’d be in play for future attempts to destroy Israel. Those that stayed in Israel, now 2,000,000 strong, live in relative equality side by side with Jews in Israel. Those that are in Gaza and the West Bank have turned the narrative to turn world public opinion against Israel and Jews by engaging in terror attacks in Israel and around the world since 1967 - hijacking of airplanes, suicide bombings, etc. - which coincides with Israel wresting control of Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan and the Golan from Syria, where neighboring armies had previously staged their attacks from.
I could go on and on about how 1,000,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from the surrounding 22 Arab nations between 1948-1967, as well as masses being ethnically cleansed by Assyrians, Romans, Arabs from the region in the past, as well as being ethnically cleansed from Europe in WW2 - 6 million exterminated and another 6 million fleeing from 1880 onward.
Look at a map of the Arab Muslim population in the Middle East compared with the Jewish population and realize that what people are saying is they want to take the 0.1 percent of the land controlled by Jews and make that into another failed Arab autocracy.
Why don’t you make an argument for me in support of the “Palestinians” taking over this land from the Jews and tell me where the Jews should go.
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