So, imagine the Europeans moving in waves into the Americas and taking over the land of its indigenous people.
Imagine that many of those Europeans saw those nations as inferior to them.
Imagine that many of those Nations had to find a way to defend their territory and especially defend themselves from those who wanted to wipe them out. What they ended up doing was arming themselves, fighting the European invasion as best they could, and protect their land and their people.
Imagine, General George Custer and how he ended up being killed by the very people he wanted to wipe out.
This is what was happening in Palestine. The difference being that the Muslims had invaded 1400 years ago, and not 400 years ago.
After being treated like parasites, to be done with what some wanted to do with them, the Jews in the 19th century, especially after seeing that the Age of Enlightenment did not enlighten the Europeans to stop with their Jew hatred, began to move in large numbers back to their ancient homeland.
Then came the Dreyfus Affair, and the Damascus Affair, which are two of the events which led to some Jews to realize that they needed to plan how to legally achieve sovereignty over their ancient homeland.
They knew it would not be easy. They had the support of some Arab tribes in Palestine.
But the Husseini clan was extremist and would not accept it. And the British, after helping with the Balfour Declaration, went back on their word, one step at a time.
The British had a second Mandate, in Iraq. They equally sat silent as the Jews were attacked there in 1941, by Al Husseini and the Iraqis he incited against those Jews, who had nothing to do with the Mandate for Palestine.
Seventy-six years after the mass massacre of the Baghdad Jews, in which the then-leader of the Palestinian Arabs, Hajj Amin Husseini, was deeply involved, his heirs to the Palestinian leadership still
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Unlike Custer, Al Husseini escaped being arrested for all the Jews he incited against, be it in Mandated Palestine, or Mandated Iraq.
The other biggest losers in Al Husseini's extremist behavior were the Arabs and others who lived on the land, or who had immigrated there since the late 1900s.
The Arab leaders promised a Jew Free Palestine for those in the southern part, and scared them with the idea that the Jews would have done to them exactly what the Muslims had done to the Jews in Hebron in 1929.
That is what happened in 1947-48.
The Arab leaders are also responsible for wanting more land, after taking Judea and Samaria and Gaza in 1948. Which is what led to the Jordanians again, and others to attack Israel.
The non Jewish population in the north of Israel, like Haifa, was asked to stay, and they stayed, and continue to live there to this day.
I do not know what Arabs you are talking about who were made to leave their homes in 1956, 1967 or 1973, unless they fled out of fear, which will happen whenever any war is declared.
Israel did not kick out any population out of Judea and Samaria once it won it in the 1967 war which was started by the Arab countries. The Arab, and others, population continues to live there.
The Jews are the ones who were kicked out of those areas in 1948, as others had been in 1920 in Gaza, 1929 in Hebron, and 1925 from TranJordan.
I do not hear you being upset about Jews being ethnically cleansed from their ancient homeland. Others who view the Jews as being "Europeans" show the same lack of empathy for the Jews, which they choose to show for the ones who do not want the Jews to be a free people, on their own ancient homeland.
So, history is ignored or rewritten and numbers used to show "proof" that the Jews did not have the right to the land.
That is the premise of The Right to Destroy Jewish History.
Because it is meant to destroy the Jewish people for good.