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madaboutharry

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13. Your post is historically inaccurate.
Mon Nov 27, 2023, 07:34 PM
Nov 2023

There was no Palestinian country in 1947. It was British Mandate Palestine, controlled by Great Britain.
Jews have always lived on this land.
The area of British Mandate Palestine was fairly divided between Jews and Arabs. The Jews said yes, the Arabs said no.
Every attempt at peace and a two-state solution, going back 75 years, was meet with Arab refusal to live with a Jewish nation next door.
The Arabs who lived there were not "swarmed and ousted and driven into camps." The surrounding Arab nations encouraged them to leave, invaded Israel and started a war while promising them that the Jews would be defeated and driven out.
Israel was not founded to be a colonial overlord.

Has there been wrong from both Jews and Arabs, yes there has been.
However, your post demonstrates a serous lack of knowledge on the history between Israel and the Palestinians.

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And they were offered a two state marybourg Nov 2023 #1
There is so much to say about this. madaboutharry Nov 2023 #2
"my view is that if people commit major mistakes in history they pay for them." I'd be interested to hear Martin68 Nov 2023 #3
If there were some nation(s) powerful enough to inflict payment on us, marybourg Nov 2023 #7
So, in your view, payment must always be forced. Doesn't that mean might makes right and the Martin68 Nov 2023 #17
What gets me is why was a two-state solution needed back then? brush Nov 2023 #4
Because after 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, in countries marybourg Nov 2023 #5
No, they've not gotten along from the jump. brush Nov 2023 #10
There were ristrictions on immigration. Buzz cook Nov 2023 #8
We can't correct the mistakes of the past. Buzz cook Nov 2023 #6
British colonial arrogance . . . Aussie105 Nov 2023 #9
I agree with you. I've stayed impartial also. brush Nov 2023 #11
How dare Palestinians have hard feelings. Basic LA Nov 2023 #12
Your post is historically inaccurate. madaboutharry Nov 2023 #13
It was their home. Now it's not. Basic LA Nov 2023 #14
This is not what you said in your post. madaboutharry Nov 2023 #15
Not what I said in my post? Basic LA Nov 2023 #16
This issue goes back to before 1948. The Balfour Declaration, from Britain, following World War 1, is the background. lees1975 Nov 2023 #18
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