FrankZapper
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- Nov 14, 2010
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If Jews want to live in Palestine, fine, but did they have to steal everyone's land?
Liberals are fond of pointing out that Native Americans were here first and how evil we are for settling the land, 500 years ago. Now I'm pretty sure the jews were in Israel long before the Palestinians...In fact, wasn't it referred to as Canaan, historically? Aren't Palestinians, settlers in a historically Jewish land?
It's not a question of who was there first and that. It's about being a so-called persecuted people who turn around and do exactly the same thing to others. I can agree that Jews and arabs should be able to live in peace in that area, but if the Jews wanted that particular land so badly, why not just buy it all up? Once you get a good majority of Jews in a certain area, you could talk about democratically voting yourselves to statehood, which could still respect the will of the arabs who choose to say.
As for North America, if you remember the island of Manhattan was bought from the indians, sure not everything went down hunky dory, but the difference being was that there was a lot of room to accommodate everyone in such a large continent. And it wasn't a religious undertaking like it is in Palestine, since religion makes everyone go soft in the common sense.