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AloeVera

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2. Should they have just accepted the expulsion of around 200,000 Palestinians even before the founding of Israel?

Reply to creon (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:39 AM

Jul 2025

And another 500,000 after?

Or agreed to give away lands that had been Muslim for a millenium and they considered THEIR Holy Land?

And it wasn't theirs to accept. It was the Palestinians, the natives of that land. Nobody consulted them but they were too busy running for their lives anyway.

The Partition was the problem. Not the people it was imposed on and their reaction to it.

Today, no one one would think of imposing such a thing on anybody. It was unjust. Why don't we acknowledge that at least.

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France, UK, Canada and Australia [View all] malaise Jul 2025 OP

Thereshould have been one in 1948 creon Jul 2025 #1

Should they have just accepted the expulsion of around 200,000 Palestinians even before the founding of Israel? AloeVera Jul 2025 #2

If they wanted a state with the sovereign power to grant them all asylum and citizensship, yes. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #3

you have explained why creon Aug 2025 #4