Hmmm...so the Jews who were never indigenous to the that land had more attachment to it than the native population?!! Very amusing.
1 - The Arabs have never claimed to be one nation...not until Nasser anyway...but that was way after 1948 and has nothing to do with the discussion.
2 - The only people I know who illegally immigrated to Palestine are the European Jews. This can easily be verified via historical records dating back to the British occupation of the land. Now if you have records of illegal immigration by Arabs, bring it forth.
3 - You are forgetting little things like Irgun being on their way en.wikipedia.org Anyway, that is immaterial. Based on your argument, then I suppose that you agree with Hitler that the Jews were not indigenous to Germany and had no attachment to the land because they did not immediately return to Germany.
4 - There were no Pan-Arab forces in 1948 for them to fight with. Stop making up stories.
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99. |
