Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

[JDPriestly]

139. Your question:

Did the Jews have the right to kick out Palestinians because Nazis killed Jews?

Yes. The UN founded Israel. It was intended as a refuge for Jewish people from the persecution to which they were subjected for at least 2000 years.

So, yes. The UN partitioned Palestine/Israel. The Israelis did not do it. The Palestinians refused the deal and in subsequent wars and conflicts lost more and more land.

Sorry. But Palestine was not a nation at the time of the partition. The area was under British rule -- the British Mandate. Prior to that time. prior to 1921 or the end of WWI when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the people now called Palestinians were part of the Ottoman Empire - - which was reduced to what is now Turkey.

Palestine was never really a separate country. It is now developing the institutions that a nation needs, closer to being a functioning nation than it has ever been. The partition awarded land to the Palestinians and other land to the Israelis.

What land which side should possess seems to me should be negotiated. But there have never been successful negotiations . . . .

It's time for successful negotiations.