[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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[ScaniaBoy]

Thanks! Excellent article.

I remember in the late 70s Israel wanted to start housing projects in the Gaza strip. No, it wasn't to be homes for early "settlers" but for the Gaza Arabs so that they would be able to move out of the refugee camps. However, Israel was condemned by the UN (via its Arab and East-bloc majorities) because they were building on "occupied territories". In reality of course the Arab states were worried that their hostages - the refugees - would no longer be hostages, and even start to understand who were their real enemies.

From the article you posted it appears that the Arab refugees did understand that in the late 40s:

“We know who our enemies are,” they will say, and they are referring to their Arab brothers who, they declare, persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes. . . . I even heard it said that many of the refugees would give a welcome to the Israelis if they were to come in and take the district over.

It was quite interesting to see - but you wouldn't see it unless you did not rely on our MSM - how many Arabs applied for Israeli papers after the Annapolis conference. They know what will happen once the IDF is withdrawn from Judea and Samaria.

[prophetic]

In a famous 1923 article, Jabotinsky voiced his readiness “to take an oath binding ourselves and our descendants that we shall never do anything contrary to the principle of equal rights, and that we shall never try to eject anyone.”

Compare that to the heartbeat of the antisemitism prevalent in the world that its the terrorists 'Absolute Right' to attack, maim, injure, sabotage and overall kill & exterminate every Jew while giving those who attack Israel a free pass everytime!!

The Jews can live alongside and even tolerate Arabs within their population but the reverse cannot be tolerated especially since they want to destroy Israel.

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[DoughtyOne]

Anyone that would like to have this in a Word Document can access it by clicking below.  (Exists in the Word 2003 format)

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[TheThinker]

Before the formation of Israel, Palestinian Arabs seemed to get along with Jews. Now, propaganda over decades has poisoned many of them.

I wonder how many still refuse to hate the Jews? I always assumed that the majority wanted to destroy the Jews. I'm not so sure now.

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[lentulusgracchus]

I'd rather see a comprehensive history of this region and period that was written by a curious Japanese or Bolivian -- someone who didn't have a dog in the fight.

You're talking about the Middle East, where 75% of the truth is available on every street corner, but going for the last 25% will get you killed.

Everybody has got a story he wants to sell you.

[goldstategop]

The Nakba was self-inflicted. The Arabs left voluntarily and not because the Jews forced them to flee. And their subsequent reception in Arab lands is in striking contrast to Israel's reception of Jews from around the planet. If blame is to be laid at anyone's feet, its at the feet of Palestinian leaders who profited handsomely from marinating their people in Jew hatred rather than trying improve their lot. That is why the conflict remains unresolved to this very day.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

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[woollyone]

“FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL”, by Joan Peters

A MOST definitive work on the subject.
Comprehensive and exhaustive with (IIRC) a 150pg bibliography. Many muslim sources are also cited.

http://www.amazon.com/Time-Immemorial-Arab-Jewish-Conflict-Palestine/dp/0963624202

[forkinsocket]

“in every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab and vice-versa.”

This kind of naive arrangement doesn't work. See Lebanon.

On the face of it, Ben-Gurion’s hope rested on reasonable grounds. An inflow of Jewish immigrants and capital after World War I had revived Palestine’s hitherto static condition and raised the standard of living of its Arab inhabitants well above that in the neighboring Arab states.

More naive thinking. Many people would rather have a rotting country that belongs exclusively to them than a thriving country that pretty much belongs to someone else. I don't begrudge the Arabs this. Jews should think the same way when they meekly accept foreign countries telling us how to run our country, for fear of America cutting off their aid & European boycotts. Better a mat of my own than a house shared, as Mizrahim say.

& so this should be no surprise:

On the contrary . . . with almost mathematical precision the betterment of the economic situation in Palestine [has] meant the deterioration of the political situation.

[Tolik]

One of the best articles on the subject I've ever read!

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