PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. A number of times I have responded to liars claiming that Israel stole the land from the poor terrorists....er, Arabs,.....with documented proof that it was purchased, often from Palestinians who were then killed for the sale by their brethren.
Pipes just wrote it in the WSJ.
The making of the Jewish state represents perhaps history’s most peaceable in-migration and state creation. Zionist efforts long had a near-exclusively mercantile, not military, quality. Jews lacked the power to fight the Ottoman or British empires, so they purchased land, acre by acre, in voluntary transactions.
Only when the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948, followed immediately by an all-out attempt by Arab states to crush the nascent Israel, did Israelis take up the sword in self-defense and go on to win land through military conquest. By then, however, this exceptional polity had already existed through purchase."
Daniel Pipes
Middle East Forum
I'd say that this fits the narrative that Democrats lie about everything.
Pipes just wrote it in the WSJ.
"Israel Is the Least-Stolen Land
Jews lacked the power to fight the Ottoman or British empires, so they purchased land, acre by acre, in voluntary transactions. Opinion | Israel Is the Least-Stolen Land
....“conquest and migration have shaped the entire world.” So far as I know, only one country was purchased rather than conquered. Ironically, that country is also the one most accused of having “stolen” the land it now controls. That country is Israel.The making of the Jewish state represents perhaps history’s most peaceable in-migration and state creation. Zionist efforts long had a near-exclusively mercantile, not military, quality. Jews lacked the power to fight the Ottoman or British empires, so they purchased land, acre by acre, in voluntary transactions.
Only when the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948, followed immediately by an all-out attempt by Arab states to crush the nascent Israel, did Israelis take up the sword in self-defense and go on to win land through military conquest. By then, however, this exceptional polity had already existed through purchase."
Daniel Pipes
Middle East Forum
I'd say that this fits the narrative that Democrats lie about everything.