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Well you can argue this all day and night but my toddler father and the rest of his Christian family was kicked out of their Jaffa home by the brutal Israeli forces in May 1948. F*** Israel.

The original British mandate of 'Palestine' consisted of both Jordan and Israel.In 1922 the British cut off 75% of 'Palestine' to create the Arab Kingdom of TransJordan (it was originally to be called Palestine but the British persuaded King Abdullah against it) The Arabs continued trying to destroy the Jews of Israel In 1947 West Palestine was again partitioned (by the UN) giving half to the Arabs thus meaning that 87% of the Palestine Mandate was under Arab rule But the Arabs wanted it ALL They attacked the tiny fledgling State of Israel with the aim of driving all Jews into the sea and where defeated , hence they lost some of the land allocated to them in the war WHICH THEY STARTED

After World War II hundreds of thousands of Germans who had lived in these areas for generations where expelled from Sudetenland by the Czechs and parts of Poland by the Poles The world took for granted that because Germany had started World War II this was justifiable The descendants of these Germans made new lives for themselves in Germany and they don't engage in terrorism to try and destroy Poland and the Czech Republic.Instead they make a positive contribution to the societies where they live I've never heard a German say "my toddler father and the rest of his Christian family was kicked out of their Sudeten home by the brutal Czech forces in 1945. F*** the Czech Republic"

or " .my toddler father and the rest of his Christian family was kicked out of their Malmo home by the brutal Polish forces in 1945. F*** Poland."

Sorry the first sentence : Well you can argue this all day and night but my toddler father and the rest of his Christian family was kicked out of their Jaffa home by the brutal Israeli forces in May 1948. F*** Israel.

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I'll second that. I lived in then-West Germany for over five years (1980-85). My girlfriend's father grew up in from Bohemia (Boehmen), and her mother was from Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien). Both were robbed of their land, and put on trians with only their rucksacks, hence, the name "Rucksakdeutschen." The Poles got Upper Silesia, and the Czecs They were obsessed with the reunification of Germany (the father, unfortunately, died a couple of years too soon to see it), but they never spoke of having their lands repatriated. They never mentioned Poland, but the mother often mentioned "die Tschekai," which was friendly German slang for Czechoslovakia.