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Here again you are blurring the distinction between peoples. This skews the issues.Not true. There were Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians with equal rights. They were all one people. They agreed in the important issues of the tines. They all, including the Jews, wanted a single democratic state with equal rights for all. They all, including the Jews, were opposed to the creation of a Jewish.
I am on the side of the native Jews.
Whose side are you on?
I am on the side of both the Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian people in their quest for self-determination and sovereignty over some portion of the territory in question.
So let's say you are correct, that the Jewish people and the Arab people residing in the territory on August 1, 1925 wanted a single democratic state to be jointly governed by the Jewish people and the Arab people. (I don't think you are correct, let me be clear. And I don't know what you would produce to prove it to me, but let's say...)
How do you propose to employ this "truth" to provide a solution to the problem going forward? What do you propose as a solution, given the realities of the situation now, a hundred years on where there is most clearly two distinct peoples, each wishing self-government? What do you think should happen? What would be a just solution?
Do you want everyone (both Jews and Arabs) expelled who were not residents in 1925, or descendants of such residents? How would each resident prove such a status? If a current citizen has one of four grandparents who was such a resident, would that be enough, or need it be all four?
See the problem I have with your position, is it is based on your personal sense of history and justice that is a 100 years gone. It has no practical value, other than constantly undermining the rights of the Jewish people.
The position if the Palestinian, or Arab, Jews was well known and oft reported. This fact, however, is not mentioned in Israel's version of history.
Zionism had no attraction for the Arab Jewish population. Before the establishment of the state, no single Arab Jew went to Palestine as a Zionist settler. Certainly a Jew from the Yemen or Morocco had no cultural links with a Jew from Poland or France.
Thus, the Israeli population was led to believe that one is either a Zionist (and, therefore, a defender of the Israeli State) or else one is anti-Semitic (and, therefore, wants to throw all the Jews into the sea). Those Jews who stood against Zionism were considered traitors to the Jewish state.
http://pdfproc.lib.msu.edu/?file=/DMC/African Journals/pdfs/Utafiti/vol1no1/aejp001001004.pdf
Thus, the Israeli population was led to believe that one is either a Zionist (and, therefore, a defender of the Israeli State) or else one is anti-Semitic (and, therefore, wants to throw all the Jews into the sea). Those Jews who stood against Zionism were considered traitors to the Jewish state.
http://pdfproc.lib.msu.edu/?file=/DMC/African Journals/pdfs/Utafiti/vol1no1/aejp001001004.pdf
Of course there are still anti Zionist Jews who do not believe in the legitimacy of the Jewish state.