Someone needs to give this woman a history lesson. Those poor, innocent Palestinians' parents and grandparents welcomed the five invading Arab armies after they--the Palestinians and the Arab nations--rejected the UN partition plan in 1947. The Palestinians expected that the badly outnumbered and outgunned Jews would be quickly swept into the sea and exterminated by the huge Arab armies. Rather than get half of the land and live in peace via the partition plan, the Palestinians thought they had a sure thing in welcoming the Arab armies and thought they would get all the land and all the Jews' property. But, oops, it didn't work out. By some miracle, the Jews won and achieved independence in 1948.
Then, in the Six-Day War, Jordan lost the West Bank because it decided to enter the war based on the errant belief that Israel was losing and losing badly. When Jordan attacked, the Palestinians were jubilant. But, Israel responded with a counter-attack and took control of the West Bank.
The Palestinians need to move to Gaza or to another Arab country.
Someone needs to give this woman a history lesson. Those poor, innocent Palestinians' parents and grandparents welcomed the five invading Arab armies after they--the Palestinians and the Arab nations--rejected the UN partition plan in 1947. The Palestinians expected that the badly outnumbered and outgunned Jews would be quickly swept into the sea and exterminated by the huge Arab armies
Where did you learn your history?
A 'Catastrophe' That Defines Palestinian Identity
"Fighting intensified in January 1948, and the Palestinian exodus began. Up to 100,000 Palestinians, mainly from the upper and middle classes, fled the cities and towns which were the epicenter of the fighting. Until then, expulsions were rare.
"But in April 1948, the Jewish forces launched a more
concerted campaign of massacre and forced displacement, including the notorious
Deir Yassin massacreof about 100 Palestinians on April 9.
"This spread panic among Palestinians, encouraging them to flee.
"When terror didn’t do the trick, Palestinians were forced out by Jewish militias. Early April saw the launch of the '
Plan Dalet' military campaign, which
sought, in part, the ethnic cleansing of most or all of the Arab inhabitants from areas claimed for a Jewish state.
"As the British
withdrew from Palestine in early May 1948, Israel declared its
establishment, and the war intensified with the intervention of several Arab armies.
"The process of
Palestinian displacement also intensified.
"Yitzhak Rabin, then a young Jewish commander, would later
write in his memoir of how he was
ordered by David Ben-Gurion—literally with the wave of a hand—to 'drive out' the 50,000 civilians in the towns of Lydda and Ramla on June 10 and 11."
Those five "invading Arab armies" took defensive positions that prevented the Jewish takeover of the West Bank until 1967.