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In reply to the discussion: My only post on the ME crisis [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)not matter one bit if they all laid down their arms and died. The Zionists have intended to drive the poor Arabs out completely since the 1800s. We unfortunately continue to enable them.
I am of the opinion that the UN should *never* have "given" the Zionists their own state in Israel. They've been stealing land ever since.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
Despite the steady arrival in Palestine of Jewish colonists after 1882, it is important to realize that not until the few weeks immediately preceding the establishment of Israel in the spring of 1948 was there ever anything other than a huge Arab majority. For example, the Jewish population in 1931 was 174,606 against a total of 1,033,314. Edward Said, The Question of Palestine.
The aim of the Fund was to redeem the land of Palestine as the inalienable possession of the Jewish people....As early as 1891, Zionist leader Ahad Haam wrote that the Arabs understood very well what we were doing and what we were aiming at... We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly...At various locations in northern Palestine Arab farmers refused to move from land the Fund purchased from absentee owners, and the Turkish authorities, at the Funds request, evicted them...
Before the 20th century, most Jews in Palestine belonged to old Yishuv, or community, that had settled more for religious than for political reasons. There was little if any conflict between them and the Arab population. Tensions began after the first Zionist settlers arrived in the 1880s...when purchased land from absentee Arab owners, leading to dispossession of the peasants who had cultivated it. Don Peretz, The Arab-Israeli Dispute.
Serfs they (the Jews) were in the lands of the Diaspora, and suddenly they find themselves in freedom ; and this change has awakened in them an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause, and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination. Zionist writer Ahad Haam, quoted in Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest.