meatcleaver -> RE: Iran: Israel will soon disappear (2/22/2008 10:47:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: luckydog1 Reality licks has a few things incorrect. First of all, His numbers are way off base. the number is disputed, but the officiall UN # is 711,000 Refugees that left Isreal. Not Millions to several countries. The West bank and Gaza and Half of Jerusalem was invaded and occupyied by Jordan, and Egypt with the approval and help of the other Arab states. in 1948. Not by Isreal. They held it for 20 years. The Arabs prevented Palestine from forming in 1948. And continue to today Jordan is the only Arab state that gave citizenship to the Palestinains, the states Reality licks listed, refused and continue to resue to allow Palestinians to immigrate. Also not a single one of them has even 1 million Palestinian refugees, not the millions each reality claims. A perfect example of how people lie about this issue. reality has probably heard that millions of times, and doesn't realise he was lied to. But it is pretty easy to look this stuff up, so the ignorance is fairly inexcusable.. Wikipedia is not the best source, but every point from this wiki quote is Footnoted, so its valid, " In 1957, the Refugee Conference at Homs, Syria, passed a resolution stating that "Any discussion aimed at a solution of the Palestine problem which will not be based on ensuring the refugees' right to annihilate Israel will be regarded as a desecration of the Arab people and an act of treason (Beirut al Massa, July 15, 1957)."[15] The Arab League issued instructions barring the Arab states from granting citizenship to Palestinian Arab refugees (or their descendants) "to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland".[16] Syrian Prime Minister, Khalid al-Azm, wrote in his 1973 memoirs: Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees [...] while it is we who made them leave. [...] We brought disaster upon [...] Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave. [...] We have rendered them dispossessed. [...] We have accustomed them to begging. [...] We have participated in lowering their moral and social level. [...] Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon [...] men, women and children-all this in the service of political purposes. Jordan is the only Arab country which uniformly gave citizenship rights to Palestinian refugees present on its soil. " It is rather disengenouis to argue Isreal should go back to the 67 borders, while arguing that it was ok for pre 67 Arabs to be working for thier anihalation, adn constantly attacking them. Arabs don't give a shit about the Palestinian people, its really sad. You're a little selective with the facts lucky. There was no agreement between the Arabs and Jews, the zionists decided to set up Israel without agreement which was what caused the conflict in 1948. The neighbouring Arab countries did invade and didn't act honourably to the Arabs that are now called the Palestinians but the zionists did ethnically cleanse (let's use the right term) around 700,000 Palestinians which have in the mean time grown to 6 million(?) refugees , both Christian and muslim. However, the conflict started way before 1948, to start at 1948 is to start at a moment that is convenient to your argument but let's do that. http://www.alnakba.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day or look up any other account of al-nakba Even Ben Gurion admitted they stole Arab land and let me quote him again. “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” “We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.” “We must expel the Arabs and take their places.” As I also pointed out, Israel along with France and Britain invaded Egypt in 1956 and it was Israel that started the 1967 war. So while you are sort of right about 1948, you are cherry picking again.
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