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To: tejek who wrote (185475)	3/24/2004 7:59:01 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572208

>That's probably right.......a war was coming. The Palestinians thought the Zionists would get massacred so they left expecting they could return after the fighting was over. That is not an unusual approach.....people often flee when a war is coming. >However, Israel would not let the Palestinians come back into Israel after the war. Instead, the Israelis confiscated their property. And the Palestinians that had fled had been promised by the Arab leaders that they would get the Jewish property after they defeated the Zionists. Do you think the Jews would've ever gotten the property back if that had happened? It's war! >Speaking of history, have you read some of the Zionist plans from the '30s re. the Palestinians. The Palestinians were considered a major problem.....they outnumbered Zionists two to one. By fleeing the war, the Palestinians played right into the hands of the Zionists and the Palestinian 'problem' was solved. I've never seen a 2-1 statistic -- perhaps in the area made up of the combined mandate of the two states, but not in the Jewish mandate. I could be wrong though. But, once again, most of the Palestinians didn't flee because the Jews forced them out. If they had, it'd be a different story. >>It's a demographic time bomb. >That's another problem and it exists whether there's right of return or not. Only if Israel keeps holding on to the territories -- if it doesn't, that problem doesn't come up again for a century or two, and the original Zionist leaders always knew it would but figured they'd have made a true peace with the Arabs by then so it wouldn't be such a problem. Of course, it'll probably always be a problem. >The Palestinians declined it because they did not think that the Zionists were entitled to 1/2 of Palestine. You might remember after all that they had farmed and ranched Palestine for nearly a millennium, and then unexpectantly, Zionist upstarts decide they want a piece of the action. I would not want to give up half my property either There were lots and lots of Jews there continuously for millennia before that as well. -Z