[rmlew]

However, would you have been okay being a displaced Arab; told that you had to leave your property for the good of someone else?
This never happened and you know it.
The vast majority of Arabs in 1948 Palestine were not-natives and rented property. They gladly heeded the calls of Arab armies to leave to allow for these armies to more easily make the Mediterranian incarnidine with the remains of Jews.
Arab ownership of land is quite rare. At best, many lease it from other landlords or from the state.
The real change was with property administered by the state. However, even today, more private land in Israel is held by Arabs than by Jews.

PS. Ethnic cleansing after WWII has helped prevent wars.
I don't see you crying over Jews who lost land in 1929, 1948 or today.

[COEXERJ145]

Ethnic cleansing after WWII has helped prevent wars.

Glad to know that you think exterminating millions of people based on race is a good policy. Your little god, Pat, would be proud.

[LowCountryJoe]

Ethnic cleansing after WWII has helped prevent wars.

This has got to be, at best, an incorrect statement. One could argue that an attempted genocide could create less conflict and tension but it would only be a short-term 'solution'. The ensuing hatred and resentment that such maneuvers would bring are not forgotten and there is always a longer-term and deeper conflict because of such attempts.

I don't see you crying over Jews who lost land in 1929, 1948 or today.

You don't see it because I wasn't taking up that particular argument. I am certainly on the side of the Jewish people whom have lost what they had in Europe of days past. I certainly sympathize with Israelites who are losing what's their's today. It is a complex issue and you should understand it as such. You should also understand where I was coming from in terms of trying to frame the debate as it relates to the reaction to this particular PB piece. If you don't see this then I'm afraid you've just done the same thing that you've accused someone else of doing [above, in an earlier post]: being 'knee-jerk'.