the statement "jewish residents of palestine for the most part got along with their arab neighbors" is as meaningless as saying "for the most part, jewish residents in the ghettos of the Ukraine---got along with the Cossack neighbors" It is also as meaningless as citing the fact that "MAMMY got along with Scarlett O'Hara" I have no doubt that there were some good relations between muslims and christians in Sudan now and then. I happen to know for SURE that some muslims and hindus got along in India pre 1948 and since there were more Hindus then Muslims in that country------and the muslims were relative new comers ---by invasion----obviously Pakistan should not exist at all. The "FOREIGNERS" argument offered by islamo nazis is silly in light of HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WAS MADE----over the past 60000 years The arguements DELEGITAMIZE every country on the face of the earth
Every nation state on the planet is illegitimate?
I think we've found common ground, rosie.
If you're right about Pakistan, I blame the same Empire that gave us Lord Balfour's "Jewish Homeland, rather than Muslims.
Jews and Arabs coexisted in Palestine/historical Israel much more harmoniously before Zionism reared its racist head. How would you expect the majority of Palestinians to responds when foreigners began bleating about creating a "Jewish Homeland" on land that did not belong to Jews?
"For instance, after a series of riots in Jaffa in 1921 resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and 48 Arabs, the occupying British held a commission of inquiry,
which reported their finding that 'there is no inherent anti-Semitism in the country, racial or religious.'
"Rather, Arab attacks on Jewish communities were the result of
Arab fears about the stated goal of the Zionists to take over the land."
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