Give back palestinian land, houses, businesses.
I think someone has been watching a little too much Al Jazeera TV. You obviously read nothing in this thread. But, just pretending that giving Arab people more Israeli land will quell their thirst for the genocide of Jews, and since you offer nothing new, I'll go along a bit.
This point must have escaped your attention, but there has NEVER in history been a Palestinian state ever. However, there HAS been a state of Israel in Judea and Samaria (now called West Bank by many). Jews were always a presence there, throughout the ages, and were a MAJORITY in East Jerusalem up through the first third of the XX century, until being driven out by the Arabs (two-thirds majority of the city population being Jewish, the rest being divided between Arabs, Greeks and others). The myth of "traditionally Arab East Jerusalem" is just that - a myth.
Incidentally, those Arab countries, while in posession of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, never even thought about creating some kind of a state for the people they forcefully kept in refugee camps. Nice relatives they got there.
This might be another shock for you, but here goes. There IS a Palestinian state in existence today. It occupies 75% of geographical Palestine (which was promised to the Jews by the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations conference), and its population is about 80% "Palestinian Arabs". Yes, you guessed it, the name is Jordan. So why is it necessary to tear off another third of the land away from the already small Israel? Could it just be a military tactic to destroy Israel entirely ....naaaa couldn't be that.
But apparently it is. The answer lies in PLO's own documents from the 60s, 70s up to right now. It states in their documents (in black and white) that there is no Palestinian people (they are a part of the larger Arab people), and the only reason to demand a state next to Israel is to create a base for the further attacks on the "Zionist Entity". Arafat was openly saying this as recently as in 1996 in Stockholm. The same logic is still in play: just look at official Arab maps of Palestine (including PA's own emblems and textbooks). The Arab Palestine takes up the whole region, with no Israel in site. And these are the people Israel is forced to negotiate with! You can read the latest speeches by Arafat and others at www.memri.org, translated in English.
The number of Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries after 1948 was about the same or greater than that of displaced Arabs (mostly moved out of the way by their own armies in the war of agression against Israel in 1948), but those Jews were integrated into Israeli citizenry. On the contrary, displaced Arabs were never allowed by any Arab country to integrate into their societies. Such exchanges of population were a common occurance after WWII, numbering in the millions. Germans moving to Germany and Greek/Turk exchange are just two examples. The blame for leaving displaced Arabs in a miserable condition rests squarely on the shoulders of Arab countries, who have been using those people as pawns for the past 50 years.
Jews, arabs and christians got along quite before european and new york jews started taking it all away from arabs.
That is utter racist bullshit. You know absolutely nothing about history. Jews were not even allowed to own property under the Ottoman empire
{QUOTE]Give some back, and the destroy israel retoric would disappear.
And, I have some nice real estate in Mr. Rogers neighborhood I'd like to show you.
Israel never abided by the un 1948 partition. It overstepped it from the beginning. It made raids on palestinian towns outside the un partition.
The territories I'm assuming you speak of, were won by Israel in a defensive war from Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and according to international law, such lands rightfully belong to the victorious defender. Russia's city of Kaliningrad and Kuril Islands are but two examples of that. So, the notion of "illegally occupied territories" is pure spin. BTW, the infamous UN resolutions also do NOT require Israel to give them all up. See above links.
When terrified arabs left some towns, israelis poisoned their water supplies by dumping bacteria in them. Who has been showing hate?
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Oh really, do you have proof of this? Even if it were true, would you like to compare the number of terrorist acts perpertrated by Israelis and Arabs? Can you really compare one act of a deranged individual to the orchestrated campaign of deliberate terror?
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