"Settlements destroy chance for peace" - Caroline Glick's amazing reality-check

[CMike]

No, but what I bolded is the present Status of Palestine.
No state in effect and no territorial borders. You cannot dispute that.

When Britain left Palestine Palestine was still there and its international borders were still there. You can call it what you wish.

Too bad the Arabs didn't accept it.

It's too late now.

 

[Kondor3]

"In 1947, Jews only owned 6 percent of the land in Palestine..."

I think that this low number should be investigated by audience members and cross-checked for accuracy. I'm busy the next couple of hours so this may end-up being addressed by others, but I'll certainly look into it myself later in the day or this evening, and report back, if I have anything to the contrary to serve-up as a counterpoint.

"...So much for Kondors baseless claims of Jews always owning modest amounts of land in Palestine..."

Definition of 'modest' - from the online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

(4)(a) "...limited in size, amount, or scope..."

Modest - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

I would say that 6% of the land was a quantity that is "limited in size, amount, or scope", yes?

Any statement saying that the Jews of Palestine owned a "modest amount" of land there in 1947 is entirely - 100% - accurate.

Nice try, though.

Oh, and, the statement in Post #165 here is that there has always been a "modest presence" of Jews in so-called Palestine since the days of antiquity...

Modest: "limited in size, amount or scope"

...and said nothing about land ownership; merely a presence. For all we know that 'presence' took on a combination of land-ownership, nomadic wandering, squatting and renting over the centuries... who the hell knows?...

"Modest presence" - NOT 'modest land ownership' - over the centuries - get the context and usage and verbiage and intentions straight in your head before charging-off and pontificating on the 'baseless' nature of a statement... get the statement straight, yes?

"...Why would indigenous Palestinians give up sovereignty of over half of their land to foreigners who only owned 6 percent of the land?..."

Nobody said they did give up their sovereignty to other-religion Residents of British Mandate Palestine in connection with this yet-to-be-verified 6% figure; me least of all.

"...History shows us Zionism was nothing but a colonial land theft project engineered by outsiders. Sherri"

Well, history shows us that Arab-Muslim Palestinians and their apologists and sympathizers hold such a position, regardless of the accuracy of the observation.