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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (160753)4/21/2005 12:11:28 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Still it was a land inhabited predominantly by arab muslims, and for the most part had been ruled by muslims for centuries

Ahem. Not by the locals. Not even by Arabs. Indigenous rule would have been a very new experience, which in fact they proved not ready to handle when talk of partition came up. Palestinian society was not organized in the 1930s and 1940s, Palestinian nationalism did not yet exist. A great part of the Arab population were new arrivals too, come for jobs.

The Palestinians had two major leaders in the 20th century. The first was the Mufti, an ardent Nazi. The second was Arafat, the grandfather of modern terrorism. Both these leaders cared far far more about destroying another society than building their own, and brought disaster with them whereever they ruled.

Some of that land was 'bought' from absentee owners of tracts on which lived indigenous under a form of usufruct which was broken when zionists evicted them

So if I buy an apartment building, the evicted tenants have a right to shoot me? or maybe they only have the right if they are arabs?

arabs should lose their land because on another continent nazis committed crimes

There was no need for any of them to have lost their land, if partition had been accepted. Their leaders kept throwing for double-or-quits, and losing. Do you think it would have been better if the Arabs had won in 1948, and massacred the Jews? That was the other option.
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