Rigby5
Diamond Member
People are fond of dragging out-dated maps out of the rubbish bin if they believe it will support their point (failing any actual arguments).
Let's look at another scenario that happened only a few months prior to the partition of Palestine and that is the Partition of India.
In 1947, this is a picture of India
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The checker-board of provinces were roughly divided between British and Hindu Rule (so-called Princely States). Some provinces had a Muslim majority, a couple a Sikh majority, mostly (approx 80%) of the entire sub-continent was Hindu.
When it became abundantly clear that Muslims and Hindus were not willing to peaceably share the land once British rule was removed, it became necessary to partition the sub-continent again to create two states ... (East and West Pakistan ... a single state with two un-connected territories and India.
The problem with that partition was, the two Pakistans contained millions of Hindus and India contained millions of Muslims.
The resultant chaos cost the lives of over 1 million people in sectarian violence in which both groups participated with enthusiasm.
The point being ... if you look at the map from 1947 ... you will see that Muslim Indians didn't hold a single centimeter of land unto themselves. They forced England and India to give them territories of their own the borders of which, till this day, are still being contested.
If you claim that Israel, as a consequence of a failed partition plan has no right to exist, you have to concede that Pakistan and Bangladesh have no right to exist as well.
Totally wrong.
India should never have been partitioned into India and Pakistan.
The whole point of good government is that it does not differentiate between individuals, and treats them all the same.
If you partition, then all you do is increase the number of small discriminated against groups.
Never do that.
With the map of Palestine, the map after partition is incredibly generous to Jews.
They reality is they really owned almost no land, almost all were illegal immigrants, and they still less than a third the population.
They were given far MORE than they deserved.
But then in 1967 went on to steal even more land they had no claim or right to.