...then the time has come to march all of the whites in America into camps, to evict all of the nonwhites from Europe, to seize about half of China for the Turkomen, to evict everyone who isn't black from southeast Asia and Australia, and to genetically test and drive out any British people who have Norse or German DNA in their blood (which is most of them).
It's funny how the very idea sounds racist and idiotic when applied to other areas and ethnic groups, but is somehow acceptable to the defenders of Israel.
Besides, the idea really does fail on its face when looked at closely anyway. While there was inarguably a Jewish diaspora, the population of Palestine was overwhelmingly Christian when the Muslims invaded. That Christian population was primarily descended from the original Christian Jews...the worlds first major Christian population were Jews who abandoned Judaism in favor of Christianity, and they were not subject to the same kind of repression as the Jewish population was. These Jewish Christians had the same claim to the land as their nonconverted Jewish relatives had. When the Muslims invaded, most of these Jewish Christians were forcibly converted to Islam. There have now been multiple genetic studies indicating that the majority of Muslim Palestinians are the genetic descendents of the Christians and Jews who lived in the area when it was conquered in the 7th century.
The argument that the Israeli's have more claim to the land than the Palestinians is ONLY valid if you also accept the belief that changing your religion somehow voids your own ancestry and heritage. It's saying that the invading Israelis' have a right to keep their land because they left the region and kept their original religion, while the original Israeli's who stayed in their homelands and changed religions somehow forfeited their right to that land. It's an offensive idea, one that violates both international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and one that should be patently unacceptable to anyone who claims to be any sort of liberal or progressive. The land belongs to the people, not a religion.
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