georgephillip
Diamond Member
Do you expect that process to be decided by one person; one vote, or will it be decided the same way it was in 1948?As I understand it, the Jordan River is the Eastern boundary of the Land of Israel.Jews never gave up hope of returning to our ancestors' land. We prayed for it 3x a day, and fasted on Tisha B'av. It was our hope for two thousand years, like it says in Hatikva--Israel's national anthem. If you've ever visited Israel, you'd see the country is full of Jewish history. I don't know why it bothers you so much that the Jews have a tiny sliver of land to call our own.
If that holds true for the present, then Israel will have to choose between being a democratic state or a Jewish state.
What would your choice be?
Israelis and "Palestinians" will have to work that out, Princess.
"The history of the Palestinian exodus is closely tied to the events of the war in Palestine, which lasted from 1947 to 1949, and to the political events preceding it.
"In September 1949, the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated 711,000 Palestinian refugees existed outside Israel,[25] with about one-quarter of the estimated 160,000 Palestinian Arabs remaining in Israel as 'internal refugees'.
"The Palestinians say they were evicted at bayonet-point and by panic deliberately incited by the Zionists.[26]
"Efraim Karsh believes that the Israeli government never took such a 'simplistic, single-cause viewpoint'.[27] Walid Khalidi[28][29] and Ilan Pappé say that the expulsion was based on a deliberate policy.[30]
"Based on the protocols of Israel's cabinet meetings, the Haganah Archive in Tel Aviv, and the IDF and Israel Defense Ministry Archive in Givatayim,[31] a number of historians have concluded that around half the Palestinians who became refugees were evicted by the Israeli army but this was not an organized policy."
1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia