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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Sam who wrote (198244)8/20/2006 5:24:26 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Ottoman Empire was the political entity. "Palestine" wasn't a country...

You are missing the entire point. No matter what you call the country, the people living there are the same. They are not being moved about. The Jews were moved in. Period. True, state boundaries may be an endless source of friction as well, especially if the state is undemocratic and controls multiple ethnic regions. If a given ethnic region lacks all or almost all effective control of their lives, they will likely cause problems (think Kurds in various states for example).

When Jews came to the area in the late 19th and first quarter of the 20th C--before the Ottoman Empire was broken up--it was a non-event for the most part. People come, people leave. They had permission to come

The same can be said about Hispanic migration into the USA. It is only when the existing dominant group wakes up to reality, that real opposition with all the nasty consequences shows up. In the case of Jewish immigration to Palestine, Jewish long term intentions had be well published starting back in the 1800's, so the Arabs had no excuse to be asleep at the wheel, other than stupidity.
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