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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (236471)7/15/2007 12:57:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
That's a naseuating comparison, and you should know it. 80% who ran off before the war or during the war - many under threats from their own side of being taken for renegades if they stayed. And that's supposed to be equivalent to 100% deported and murdered?

And what would have happened to the Jews if they had lost? You conveniently airbrush that out of history! And the Jews who were thrown out of the Arab lands, who outnumbered the Arab refugees from Palestine, you forget them too.

The Brits and the Israelis tried to negotiate an exchange of populations, a return of refugees, a settlement. The Arab governments wouldn't have it. Take all the refugees back, they said, but we don't recognize you and we'll get you next time. And they Israelis had more Jewish refugees on their hands at that point than their had been Jews in the yishuv before 1948! They demanded a settlement first, not without agonizing about the plight of the refugees, but they just couldn't afford the risk.

I am sick of ignoramuses talking as if this happened only in Palestine. 14 MILLION people became refugees in the partition of India and Pakistan, an exchange of populations was negotiated and not ONE of those people or their descendants is in a "refugee camp".

The Arabs had a choice. They made their choice. The situation is as it is because they chose implacable hatred of Israel instead of diplomacy and were willing to sacrifice millions of their fellow Arabs to that hatred. That was their choice.

And every time fools like you claim that because Jews are so special, the only way they can be moral is to have committed suicide in the face of that hatred, you aid and encourage Arab hatred.
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