End the Occupation"
That was a bumper sticker I saw today.
So there are several Arab states in the region and only one Jewish state, but Israel is "occupying" Palestine?
the pope, as per most of what he's said, had it right on this issue, too.
Francis was quoted as saying that “anyone who does not recognize the Jewish people and the State of Israel — and their right to exist — is guilty of anti-Semitism."
‘Not recognizing Israel as Jewish is anti-Semitic, Pope says’
The answer is yes they are occupying Palestine. From the lack of authority given to the Palestinians, to the continuously decreasing land owned in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli, 'settlers' have intruded on the Palestinians land.
http://www.nullifidian.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/palestinian-loss-of-land-1946-2010.jpg
Palestine was just the name given to the area by the british during the mandate.
there is no such thing as "Palestine" as a country.
there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
they are Jordanian and lived in trans-Jordan before it was cut up by the brits. why doesn't Jordan let them in?
hint: because Jordan doesn't want them.
Read my signature. Funny I don't believe that article;
Those 'Arab" villages were probably built on top of the older Jewish ones and renamed, just like the did with The Temple Mount and other Jewish and Christian buildings sites
not to mention that after a war, like where the grand mufti of Jerusalem told his people to leave and they'd send the jews into the sea, stuff happens.
I've never seen the jew-haters demand my great grandfather's property in Belarus be returned to me.
or the jewish land in Persia/iran, Syria, Lebanon, yemen.... etc.
but why would the jew-haters concern themselves with that when they can whine that terrorists lost a war.