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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25638)4/16/2002 4:50:51 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hawkmoon...you raise some interesting points..but here's the way I see it. It's not a question of should the Palestinians be allowed to 'establish' a homeland. It's a question of Israel giving their land back and removing the population of the settlements. Whether or not the Palestinians create their own state as a secular democracy or join up with Jordan, which is not, is their decision.

In the early years, Jewish immigrants bought land in Palestine. In subsequent years, the immigrants used a variety of means to essentially confiscate land that wasn't for sale. For ex. waiting until a family had temporarily left the land or a harvest had been completed...Israelis would take aerial photographs and declare the land 'abandoned', drawing on some archaic Ottoman laws pertaining to abandonment of land. Or the 'accidental' bulldozing of homes...people go to stay with relatives...Israel claims the land. The 'Jewish only' roads that service the settlements in Gaza and the West Bank was obtained by emminent domain. How can Israel be allowed to acquire land thru emminent domain when the title to the land is in dispute???

I don't see justification for a homeland based on anything special or unique about Palestinians other than the fact that they once enjoyed rightful ownership of the land. For that matter there is Israeli occupation of land that was once owned by Christian Arabs and American Arabs. Title for these lands should be transferred back, too.
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