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To: RetiredNow who wrote (217801)	2/7/2005 12:00:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

So tell me tejek. Go back to the earliest days of Jewish re-immigration into the Middle East from their diaspora. What did they do? They bought land legitimately, then they defended that land against marauders, most Arab tribal people. Later when sovereignty was declared within U.N. boundaries, these boundaries did not include some settlements that already existed. That's the innocent part. The bad part is when Zionists started accelerating settlement activity in order to recapture historical Israel. Sharon had a huge hand in this early on. However, once again, those settlements were purchased legally in most cases. Palestine was a colony of the Brits. During WW I, a Jewish scientist invented an explosive powder that the Brits used to great advantage during the war. In exchange for that invention, the Brits allowed a certain number of the Zionists to move to Palestine under a quota system. Soon the Zionists put pressure on the Brits to up the annual quota. With money raised from Jewish groups in Europe, the Zionists were able to buy up Palestinian land from the Brits and evicted the Arab ranchers who had lived on the land for centuries. Understandably, animosity developed between the Arabs and the Jews. By the 1930s, the Zionists began to discuss 'the Arab problem'. Open fighting between the two groups had become common by that point. As the decade wore on, the Zionists kept pushing the Brits to give them their own state. During WW II, Israeli terrorist groups were making the Brits very unhappy.......they were blowing up hotels and attacking both the Brits and the Arabs on a regular basis.....sound familiar. It was finally decided after WW II that the Israelis would get their own state. But then at the last minute the Brits had second thoughts and decided not to go forward......instead they handed over the problem regarding Palestine's future to the UN and the US. The UN came up with a mandate calling for two states........one Israel; the other Palestinian. Israel was declared free in 1947. Immediately, the surrounding Arab countries attacked the new state. They told the Palestinians to flee the new Israel so they would not be hurt during the ensuing war. No one expected Israel to survive but she fooled everyone. When the Palestinians tried to come back, they were denied re entry into Israel......their property and possessions were confiscated. They were corralled into refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. You may not agree with the decisions the Palestinians made during the first 50 years of the 20th century but they do have good reason to feel like they've been screwed. What makes this different than American settlements in foreign lands and foreign settlements in American lands? There isn't a religious war going on between Americans and foreigners. There is one going on between Muslims and Jews. The new settlements are on land that was supposed to be the new state for the Palestinians.....both in the West Bank and Gaza. However, the major land grab has been in the West Bank where all the water is. Please note that its Gaza that Israel is more willing to give up. Gaza has nothing. Over the decades since 1947, Israel has been annexing bits and pieces of the West Bank. If you can't understand why that would upset the Arabs then there is no need to go further with this discussion.