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Never mind that the land belonged to the palestinians "before" the US/UN put the Jews there after WWII huh? They have a legitimate beef there. Their methods are indefensable but started out as similar to those used in our fight for independance.(not including suicide bombings of course)

Are you sure about that? Would you like to have a conversation?

There has ALWAYS been a Jewish presence in the area, albeit a small one. And aside from that, do you have any idea how sparsely populated it was by Arabs (so-called Palestinians) for centuries? Have you read any eye-witness accounts circa turn of the century? Samuel L Clemens basically called Jerusalem a deserted dump in which animals weren't fit to live. It was populated mostly by Bedouins. The "Palestinians" didn't care about it until they thought they would lose it to the Jews.

"Palestine" during Turkish control consisted of what now is Jordan as well as Israel. After Britain gained control, they released the Balfour Declaration, which promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. The British also created - yes created - half the countries in the middle east by dolling out parcels of land to various Arab royals. They split Palestine into two parts - an Arab state and a Jewish state. The Arab state became Transjordan, later Jordan, and the rest (less that one tenth of one percent of the entire Arab world) was to become a Jewish state.

I'll not even go into all the roadblocks and broken promises instigated by the British in response to the protests of the Arabs, who never did want Israel to exist (and still don't - they make that clear daily), but let's sum up by saying that the protests of the Arabs eventually caused the UN to partition the Jewish mandate in the most ridiculous checkerboard fashion, forcing the Jews to lose Jerusalem as their capital. But the Jews, although very disappointed, signed onto the plan anyway. And guess what - the Arabs didn't. They insisted on all the land, attacking Israel the minute she declared independence.

Less than one tenth of one percent. A scrap the size of NJ. But they shouldn't be allowed to have that either right? And at the very least, they should allow millions and millions of "Palestinians" to return to their "native" land. Sounds fair, doesn't it.

Don't even get me started on the "refugee problem." Sorry - I'm a bit fired up over the latest count - 19 dead and 140+ injured.