Wrong.. many Israelis had been there from BEFORE WWI, when the region belong to the Turks.
The Turks encouraged the Jews to immigrate there because they brought money and technology that the regions needed. And they potentially saw the Jews as a counterweight to some of the Arabs who were not particularly fond of the Turks.
And since the Jews PURCHASED the majority, if not all, of the land in the Yishuv, employing palestinians in jobs that paid better than they had possessed before, they had every right to live there.
After all, no one forced the Palestinians to sell their land to the Jews..
And I did not say the American colonists were terrorists. American forces seldom, if ever, targeted women and children. There were incidents with certain Tory factions who were driven from their property and settled in Canada, but that was their choice to remain loyal to the crown.
I call the US colonists guerillas and revolutionaries... and the system they were fighting to create was MORE JUST AND FAIR than the one that had previously lived under.
They were fighting for MORE freedom, not to replace one form of oppression with another. |
