Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

[oberliner]

209. That is definitely not true

The colonists wanted to escape oppression in Europe and build a new society where Jewish people can have self-determination in a land that many feel spiritually connected to.

I did make a point of noting that "land without a people" was false; however, I hope you would acknowledge that in the case of both the First Aliyah and the Second Aliyah, land was purchased legally in Palestine - and said land was primarily uninhabited swampland.

I would have hoped that you would have had the honesty to admit that the notion of "Palestinians were happily living in their own country when Jews from abroad came over to kick them out of their land and steal all their property" is completely false, but I guess that was too much to expect.

If nothing else, you must, I would think, acknowledge that Palestinians did not have their own independent country and were living under colonial rule prior to the beginning of the Zionist movement.

There was absolutely no reason why the Zionist movement and nascent Palestinian nationalist movement of the same time period could not have easily coexisted to the betterment of both peoples.