Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Or can you tell me when the British GAVE land in Palestine belonging to Arabs to Jews?
Because what I always learned was that Britain merely ALLOWED Jews to immigrate and purchase land there. If they took any Arab land then it was because that land was sold to them by said Arab. The Jews being killed and terrorized weren't even Zionists or immigrants anyway. They were the same Jews that had been there for generations. Their neighbors, that is who was targeted for ethnic cleansing and murder first.
As Ken said: They would do all that they've done if anybody else had occupied their land AND made them leave. It's not like they'd be ok with the status quo if only other Arabs or other Muslims were administering it. If it is reasonable to expect the Arabs to resort to terrorism because their land was occupied and they were made to leave, then what is reasonable to expect of the Jews who were being harassed, threatened and then either evicted or murdered?
Or is this not a level field? Why is it that an event as innocuous as Britain allowing Jews the right to immigrate to a small section of Palestine is considered a reasonable excuse to commit war crimes, while the act of Jews defending themselves from said war crimes seems to then become the justification for the commission of even more heinous Palestinian acts than before?
France has a lot of Muslim immigrants lately. Would you consider an organized attempt at killing and expelling some French Muslims by concerned citizens to be an understandable act? (Not recent immigrants either... Muslims that had been there previously. Say since Robespierre's time.)
Even better... let's say a Palestinian gunman opened fire in New York City and killed an acquaintance of mine. Would heading out to kill my Palestinian friend Omar be a reasonable response iyo?