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To: EBUCK
We have the whole continent. How would you like it if they gave Georgia of Colorado to the Arabs because they were persecuted in Europe? Doesn't sit well does it. Don't you think that if you lost property to this relocation you would have to resort to fighting by any means necc to get it back? That's what happened. Without compensation for lost property. And they've been pissed off ever since.

It's been a while since I have seen a post which is totally wrong.
Ignorance might have been a great excuse 7 months ago, but there has been enough time to have picked up even the most rudimentary facts about "Palestine".

Israel's creation began long before their persecution in Europe. Most of the private land in Israel was purchased between 1880 and 1947.
The remainder was lost by the Ottoman Empire when they picked the wrong allies in World War I.
Notice that the Turkish Empire has not made any claims.

The 400,000 Muslims who left Israel during the war of creation left voluntarily in the hope that Israel would be destroyed before she was established.
Any of those 400,000 who might still be alive might have a legitimate claim to return, provided that they pledge allegiance to a Jewish State and its laws.
Not a single other arab has a claim.

Your comparison couldn't be farther off if an Arab invented it.

Yes, the Arab Muslims have been pissed off since 1948, but not because they got kicked off their land, but because they failed to kick the Israelis off theirs.
Losers don't get to make decisions 54 years later.

108 posted on 03/27/2002 3:46:20 PM PST by Publius6961
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To: Publius6961
Yup. Got it. See post #94. Thanks for solidifying the information I've gotten here.

EBUCK

126 posted on 03/28/2002 8:03:49 AM PST by EBUCK
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