Independence is not a factor.ALIEN: By contrast, an "alien" is generally understood to be a foreigner -- a person who comes from a foreign country -- who does not owe allegiance to our country.No Roudy THEY INVADED AS ILLEGAL...IMMIGRANTS get it right...steveYou have not facts, all you do is spout propaganda.
Facts are Jews took refuge in the Ottoman Empire and some of them settled in their holy land. Those facts are corroborated through other official sources. Now go fix your turntables, you nazi orangutang.
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All of us on this Board (with the exception of Ringel, who is an American Indian) are descended from immigrants. The Jews, from both Europe and the Middle East, were legal immigrants. And an independent "country" of Palestine did not exist at that time, so the matter of allegiance was irrelevant.
It is when they refused to accept it under International law in 1923.