• oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org
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      5 hours ago

      Jews founded a state of their own in 1948. Forgiveness of others is independent of building a safe home for your people.

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        On a land that didn’t belong to them. And in the process killed 15000 Palestinians and expelled 750.000 to create their dream ethno state. Prior to 1900 very few Jews were living there and the local population was mostly Arabs.

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          The League of Nations created a mandate for the foundation of a state for the Jews in the Levante. So there’s a basis in international law for it.

          Most of the land on which Israel was founded in 1948 was state owned land and land owned by Jews they had purchased.

          No Palestinian would have lost their land, if the partition plan would have been accepted. Instead they chose war and lost it.

          Prior to 1900 the land was only sparsely populated in the first place.

          More than 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries in the region and had to flee to Israel. It was a population exchange like India and Pakistan around the same time.

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            The Jewish Agency, the recognized representative of the Jewish community, accepted the plan, which assigned 55–56% of Mandatory Palestine to the Jews. At the time, the Jews were about a third of the population and owned around 6–7% of the land.

            And then you wonder why Arabs weren’t happy. Would you be happy if someone comes to Germany and tells you from now on, 55% of Germany belongs to Turkiye?

            But arguing with you and trying to show you the other point of view is like fighting with windmills.

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              A huge part of the land for the Jewish part was the Negev desert. And as I said most of the land in general was state owned. Lots of Jewish immigration was expected, which would quickly change the population disparity as well.

              You can read the old documents about how they arrived at the plan on the UN’s website.