rylah
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At one time the Jews were invaders of a pre existing culture. Be careful who you term invaders.Invaders, as the Arabs are, or indigenous, the fact continues to be that when the Jews were ready to reconstitute their Nation on their ancestral land they were more than ready to accept leaving side by side with the Muslims who have been there for 1300 years.Like calling Jews who immigrated to Israel Europeans is a useful shorthand? Come on Shusha. You know darn well that is NOT what iths shorthand for...it is nothing more than a means of separating them out as non native invaders. The "other". And it absolutely affects their rights in the same manner as referring to Jews as Europeans.The Palestinians were not Arabs from Arabia. I dont know why that lie keeps getting repeated.
It keeps getting repeated because it is accurate and a useful shorthand about the meaning of indigeneity. People belonging to an invading, conquering, colonizing, culture (no matter how many centuries have passed since the conquest) are not indigenous.
Why do you worry about it so much, since it affects their RIGHTS not at all?
Not so with the Arabs, who saw it as a Muslim land only, and still see it as Muslim land only, taking away as much land as they could from 1920 to 1948 from the Jews .
Were Jews given the right to their holy sites during 1948-1967?
Are they allowed to live in TrasJordan? In Gaza? As they did for thousands of years?
Jews give the Muslims and Christians and all others freedom of worship and visiting their holy sites.
The same has never been true of Muslims, not only now, but for much of the 1300 years before the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate.
Rightful inheritors, conquerors, not invaders.
The "pre-existing" culture spoke Hebrew.
The term for invaders in Hebrew is - 'Palestinians'.
