Israel/Palestine

Tony_FLADEM

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11. Jews were expelled from the Arab countries as revenge for the Arabs being expelled from

Thu May 19, 2016, 04:33 PM

May 2016

what became the state of Israel.

If the Palestinian Arabs hadn't been expelled the Jews from the Arab Countries wouldn't have been. Not saying it was right to expel the Jews from the Arab Countries but it's important to put it in context and some of them wanted to leave.

The Arabs had started being expelled in 1947. By the time the Arab-Israeli War started 300,000 Arabs had already been displaced.

The UN Partition was unworkable. The land allocated to the Jewish State would have started out with a 40% Non-Jewish population and the land allocated for the Palestinian state was not adequate for a country to be viable. It was only accepted for strategic reasons.

Israel has a right of return law. How can there be a right of return from 70AD but from 1948 there is no right of return?

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The Double Nakba [View all] shira May 2016 OP

Yep King_David May 2016 #1

You know why, but still a good question. n/t aranthus May 2016 #2

Two wrongs don't make a right. Little Tich May 2016 #3

The Palestinians need to recognize that they have the most responsibility. aranthus May 2016 #4

Sigh. Little Tich May 2016 #5

You really need to read Morris in full. aranthus May 2016 #6

Morris indeed argues that it was justified to expel Palestinians. Little Tich May 2016 #7

So you would support the right of return aranthus May 2016 #8

Best the "refugees" integrate into the country's they were born in... King_David May 2016 #9

But then they could not be used as a weapon aranthus May 2016 #10

All of them should have that right. Little Tich May 2016 #18

I respect your consistency. aranthus May 2016 #19

Not so much so for those Europeans who have ancestors or who themselves were refugees. Little Tich May 2016 #21

Not really. aranthus May 2016 #22

I've met Germans who are still unhappy about their grandparents being expelled from from their homes Little Tich May 2016 #25

Neither the Turk or Greek side will allow refugees or their descendants.... shira May 2016 #23

Interestingly, Greece and Turkey did agree on a population exchange, which is an argument in your Little Tich May 2016 #24

Jews were expelled from the Arab countries as revenge for the Arabs being expelled from Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #11

Not a word of truth to this. aranthus May 2016 #12

According to Benny Morris they started expelling the Palestinian Arabs before the war started Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #14

No he doesn't say that. aranthus May 2016 #16

In my previous post I said the Palestinians started being expelled in 1947 Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #17

Completely wrong aranthus May 2016 #20

Did you make that up ? King_David May 2016 #13

Which part is made up? Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #15