The Cost of Israel

What moral authority did the allies have to give Arabs land they had been living on for centuries?

The land was Turkish land owned by the Ottoman Sultanate, not Arab land. Arabs, for the most part, did not have legal title to land in Judea

No "Arab land" was given away. Arabs sold land to Jews...
Palestine Royal Commission...
The Arab population shows a remarkable increase since 1920, and it has had some share in the increased prosperity of Palestine. Many Arab landowners have benefited from the sale of land [to Jews] and the profitable investment of the purchase money. The fellaheen are better off on the whole than they were in 1920. This Arab progress has been partly due to the import of Jewish capital into Palestine and other factors associated with the growth of the National Home. In particular, the Arabs have benefited from social services which could not have been provided on the existing scale without the revenue obtained from the Jews.

Furthermore, Arabs were offered statehood by the UN which they rejected.

You history lesson for the day, Georgie.
 
"The action of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of all peoples to self-determination[/B].

Dummy, Arabs have nearly 30 countries in 99.9% of the Middle East and north Africa, approx. 8 million sq mi.

Israelis control just one tiny country on 0.1% of the land, on 8,000 sq mi.

You're so pitifully dumb, it's not even funny. Too bad you weren't aborted to save everyone the despair
 
"The action of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of all peoples to self-determination[/b].

Dummy, Arabs have nearly 30 countries in 99.9% of the Middle East and north Africa, approx. 8 million sq mi.

Israelis control just one tiny country on 0.1% of the land, on 8,000 sq mi.

You're so pitifully dumb, it's not even funny. Too bad you weren't aborted to save everyone the despair
Stupidity and insanity comes in abundance, the reason people believe in Islam in the first place. :lol:

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By denying the Palestine Arabs, who formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for themselves, the United Nations had violated its own charter.” Sami Hadawi, 'Bitter Harvest.

Open a history book, high school dropout.

Arabs viewed "Palestine" as part of Syria. Palestinians did not exist. Syrian Arabs have a state.

Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...
For Arabs, too, the term Palestine was unacceptable, though for other reasons. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant but not abhorrent in the same way as it was to Jews. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [Syria]. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.

At first, the country of which Palestine was a part was felt to be Syria. In Ottoman times, that is, immediately before the coming of the British, Palestine had indeed been a part of a larger Syrian whole from which it was in no way distinguished whether by language, culture, education, administration, political allegiance, or any other significant respect. The dividing line between British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria-Lebanon was an entirely new one and for the people of the area was wholly artificial. It was therefore natural that the nationalist leadership when it first appeared should think in Syrian terms and describe Palestine as southern Syria.
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All of those countries set up defensive forces (as meager as they were) around Palestine civilian population areas.

Er, Tin Head...

"The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formally abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate"
Middle East historian Bernard Lewis

Cool, according to the UN charter and recognized international law the Palestinians have first dibs.
 
All of those countries set up defensive forces (as meager as they were) around Palestine civilian population areas.

Er, Tin Head...

"The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formally abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate"
Middle East historian Bernard Lewis

Cool, according to the UN charter and recognized international law the Palestinians have first dibs.

The UN Charter protects the Palestine Mandate against revocation that establishes Palestine as the Jewish homeland.

The UN doesn't recognize the so-called Palestinians in either UN Res. 181 conferring Arab statehood in Judea nor in UN Res. 242.

You lose, again, Tin Head. Go to sleep, stupid boy
 
Did Mohammad give you a blow job today or are you just mental Tinmore? :cuckoo:

Muhammad enjoyed molesting 6 year old little girls, but, given Muhammad was illiterate, he prolly would have wanted to get jiggy with Tin Head.
 
Even sadder:

"Even in 1947, after half a century of Zionist immigration and an influx of Jewish refugees from Hitler, Jews still constituted only one third of the population of the British Mandate of Palestine.

"Only seven percent of the land was Jewish-owned.

"Yet when the United Nations partitioned Palestine in that year, the Jewish state-to-be received 53 percent and the Arab state-to-be received only 47 percent of the land.

"Jerusalem was to remain separate under international supervision, a "corpus seperatum" in the words of the United Nations.

"One of the myths that many Americans still believe is that the initial war between the Arabs and Israelis broke out on May 15, 1948 when the British withdrew and military units from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria entered Palestine, allegedly because the Arabs had rejected a partition plan that the Israelis accepted.

"In fact, the fighting began almost six months earlier, immediately after the partition plan was announced.

"By the time the Arab armies intervened in May, some 400,000 Palestinians already had fled or been driven from their homes.

"To the Arab nations the military forces they sent to Palestine were on a rescue mission to halt the dispossession of Palestinians from the areas the U.N. had awarded to both the Jewish and the Palestinian Arab state.

"In fact history has revealed that the Jordanian forces had orders not to venture into areas the U.N. had awarded to Israel.

The Cost...
 
Even sadder:

"Even in 1947, after half a century of Zionist immigration and an influx of Jewish refugees from Hitler, Jews still constituted only one third of the population of the British Mandate of Palestine.

"Only seven percent of the land was Jewish-owned.

"Yet when the United Nations partitioned Palestine in that year, the Jewish state-to-be received 53 percent and the Arab state-to-be received only 47 percent of the land.

"Jerusalem was to remain separate under international supervision, a "corpus seperatum" in the words of the United Nations.

"One of the myths that many Americans still believe is that the initial war between the Arabs and Israelis broke out on May 15, 1948 when the British withdrew and military units from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria entered Palestine, allegedly because the Arabs had rejected a partition plan that the Israelis accepted.

"In fact, the fighting began almost six months earlier, immediately after the partition plan was announced.

"By the time the Arab armies intervened in May, some 400,000 Palestinians already had fled or been driven from their homes.

"To the Arab nations the military forces they sent to Palestine were on a rescue mission to halt the dispossession of Palestinians from the areas the U.N. had awarded to both the Jewish and the Palestinian Arab state.

"In fact history has revealed that the Jordanian forces had orders not to venture into areas the U.N. had awarded to Israel.

The Cost...

Jordan was promised $3M a year for five years not to attack Israel.

They didn't. It was just another lie out of Israel.
 
Even sadder:

"Even in 1947, after half a century of Zionist immigration and an influx of Jewish refugees from Hitler, Jews still constituted only one third of the population of the British Mandate of Palestine.


League of Nations...
Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country
The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate

US Congress...
The United States Congressional Record
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
National Home for
THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

"Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.

Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.

A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.

Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people.
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Everyone knows that Palestine is the homeland of the Jews.

And the homeland for a lot of other people too.
 
Everyone knows that Palestine is the homeland of the Jews.

And the homeland for a lot of other people too.

Canaanites and Philistines no longer exist.
Arabs' homeland is Arabia.

Your lesson for the day, uneducated one
 
Everyone knows that Palestine is the homeland of the Jews.

And the homeland for a lot of other people too.

Canaanites and Philistines no longer exist.
Arabs' homeland is Arabia.

Your lesson for the day, uneducated one

When was it that the Jews were the only people living in Palestine?

Open a history book, uneducated one.

The term "Palestine" was never used in ancient times. The correct terms are Canaan and Judea.

Jews originated in Canaan/Judea in at least 1300 BCE. Arabs originated from Arabia and invaded the land 2000 years later in 636 AD.

Your history lesson for the day, moron.
 
Canaanites and Philistines no longer exist.
Arabs' homeland is Arabia.

Your lesson for the day, uneducated one

When was it that the Jews were the only people living in Palestine?

Open a history book, uneducated one.

The term "Palestine" was never used in ancient times. The correct terms are Canaan and Judea.

Jews originated in Canaan/Judea in at least 1300 BCE. Arabs originated from Arabia and invaded the land 2000 years later in 636 AD.

Your history lesson for the day, moron.

All that retarded blabber while you duck the question.
 

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