“You don’t live here anymore. You left. What are you doing here?”

[Dante]

Wow! I'm not sure what it is I can say about this type of behavior.

The uniformed visitor laid down the law in soft, even tones: If you insist on coming home, he told Mr. Til with an air of generosity, you can — so long as you accept its trashed condition. “It’s as-is,” he said, as if he were selling a house. Army drones had photographed every detail, he explained. If the residents moved so much as a stone or pulled a tarp over an unroofed house, it would be considered an illegal construction, and there could be trouble.

Mr. Til and the others were incredulous: What if it rains?, they pressed. What about the summer sun? The official held firm: You move things, you put up a tarp, you break the law. And then, having delivered this discouraging welcome, he drove off.

“You don’t live here anymore. You left. What are you doing here?” one of the young men asked Mr. Til. “Where are you sleeping at night?”
“We didn’t leave,” Mr. Til replied quietly. His posture and tone were deferential. At least one of the settlers carried a pistol stuck in the back of his pants.

KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank

Opinion | For Palestinians, the Future Is Being Bulldozed (Published 2023)

The West Bank is policed by armed settlers and littered with destroyed houses that residents are forbidden to repair.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Dante]

This is just...
KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank

“You left,” the settler yelled again, stepping close to Mr. Til. “Where did you sleep?” His two friends circled restlessly behind him.
“This is our land,” Mr. Til said.

“This is Jewish land for more than 3,000 years,” the young man said.
Mr. Til sat on a boulder and lit a cigarette. The three settlers formed a triangle before him. One of them hocked theatrically and then spat.

After pacing and smoking for a while, the settlers piled back into the truck and left. They ignored my questions, saying, “I’m not interested.” One of them, a lean young man in khaki pants, called out menacingly to Mr. Til before they left: “We’re coming back to have a party here.”

Opinion | For Palestinians, the Future Is Being Bulldozed (Published 2023)

The West Bank is policed by armed settlers and littered with destroyed houses that residents are forbidden to repair.

www.nytimes.com

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Jordan and Egypt have plenty of space for Palestinians.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Jordan and Egypt have plenty of space for Palestinians.

so why wont they take them in?.....why not Saudi Arabia,they got lots of land?.....

 

[Coyote]

This is just...
KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank

“You left,” the settler yelled again, stepping close to Mr. Til. “Where did you sleep?” His two friends circled restlessly behind him.
“This is our land,” Mr. Til said.

“This is Jewish land for more than 3,000 years,” the young man said.
Mr. Til sat on a boulder and lit a cigarette. The three settlers formed a triangle before him. One of them hocked theatrically and then spat.

After pacing and smoking for a while, the settlers piled back into the truck and left. They ignored my questions, saying, “I’m not interested.” One of them, a lean young man in khaki pants, called out menacingly to Mr. Til before they left: “We’re coming back to have a party here.”

Opinion | For Palestinians, the Future Is Being Bulldozed (Published 2023)

The West Bank is policed by armed settlers and littered with destroyed houses that residents are forbidden to repair.

www.nytimes.com

And the Israeli government supports this.

 

[K9Buck]

And the Israeli government supports this.

Waging unending war has consequences. You want the Palis to be able to indiscriminately murder Jews without consequence. Are you next going to argue that Poland should return land that formerly belonged to Germany?

 

[luiza]

The rage that will course round the world will be huge with an estmated 50% starving in Gaza .
Those supporting genocide will be despised and rightly or not will be turned on .

 

[Augustine_]

Jordan and Egypt have plenty of space for Palestinians.

Casual support for ethnic cleansing

 

[Roudy]

The rage that will course round the world will be huge with an estmated 50% starving in Gaza .
Those supporting genocide will be despised and rightly or not will be turned on .

Include yourself in those supporting genocide.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Encouraging immigration is not casual genocide.

 

[Roudy]

Casual support for ethnic cleansing

Kind of like Arabs did to Jews that had been living among them for thousands of years? In those cases they completely wiped Jewish existence and heritage from their lands.

Jewish exodus from the Muslim world​

In the 20th century, approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia. Primarily a consequence of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980. An estimated 650,000 (72%) of these Jews resettled in Israel.[1]

A number of small-scale Jewish migrations began in many countries of the Middle East in the early 20th century, with the only substantial aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) coming from Yemen and Syria.[2] Few Jews from Muslim countries immigrated during the existence of the British Mandate for Palestine.[3] Prior to Israel's independence in 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands that now make up the Arab world. Of this figure, just under two-thirds lived in the French- and Italian-controlled regions of North Africa, 15–20% lived in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% lived in the Kingdom of Egypt, and approximately 7% lived in the Kingdom of Yemen. A further 200,000 Jews lived in the Imperial State of Iran and the Republic of Turkey.

The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. In these cases, over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their assets and properties behind.[4] Between 1948 and 1951, 260,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries.[5] In response, the Israeli government implemented policies to accommodate 600,000 immigrants over a period of four years, doubling the country's Jewish population.[6] This move encountered mixed reactions in the Knesset; in addition to some Israeli officials, there were those within the Jewish Agency who opposed promoting a large-scale emigration movement among Jews whose lives were not in immediate danger.[6]

Later waves peaked at different times in different regions over the subsequent decades. The peak of the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1956, following the Suez Crisis. The emigrations from the other countries of North Africa peaked in the 1960s. Lebanon was the only Arab country that saw an increase in its Jewish population during this period, due to an influx of Jews from other Arab countries, though this was temporary—by the mid-1970s, the Jewish community of Lebanon had also dwindled. 600,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries had relocated to Israel by 1972,[7][8][9][10] while another 300,000 migrated to France and the United States. Today, the descendants of Jews who immigrated to Israel from other Middle Eastern lands (known as Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews) constitute more than half of the total Israeli population.[11] This is due in part to their higher fertility rate, particularly vis-à-vis the country's Ashkenazi Jews.[12] In 2009, only 26,000 Jews remained in Arab countries and Iran,[13] as well as another 26,000 in Turkey.[14] By 2019, the total number of Jews in Arab countries and Iran had declined to 12,700,[15] and in Turkey to 14,800.[16]

 

[Augustine_]

Encouraging immigration is not casual genocide.

Ethnic cleansing - the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. Oxford Dictionary.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Ethnic cleansing - the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. Oxford Dictionary.

Then, boy, Hamas should not have mass murdered 1,700 Israelis.

Don't you understand that the Arabs can never succeed because they cannot compete with the Jews?

 

[Augustine_]

Kind of like Arabs did to Jews that had been living among them for thousands of years? In those cases they completely wiped Jewish existence and heritage from their lands.

Jewish exodus from the Muslim world​

In the 20th century, approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia. Primarily a consequence of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980. An estimated 650,000 (72%) of these Jews resettled in Israel.[1]

A number of small-scale Jewish migrations began in many countries of the Middle East in the early 20th century, with the only substantial aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) coming from Yemen and Syria.[2] Few Jews from Muslim countries immigrated during the existence of the British Mandate for Palestine.[3] Prior to Israel's independence in 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands that now make up the Arab world. Of this figure, just under two-thirds lived in the French- and Italian-controlled regions of North Africa, 15–20% lived in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% lived in the Kingdom of Egypt, and approximately 7% lived in the Kingdom of Yemen. A further 200,000 Jews lived in the Imperial State of Iran and the Republic of Turkey.

The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. In these cases, over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their assets and properties behind.[4] Between 1948 and 1951, 260,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries.[5] In response, the Israeli government implemented policies to accommodate 600,000 immigrants over a period of four years, doubling the country's Jewish population.[6] This move encountered mixed reactions in the Knesset; in addition to some Israeli officials, there were those within the Jewish Agency who opposed promoting a large-scale emigration movement among Jews whose lives were not in immediate danger.[6]

Later waves peaked at different times in different regions over the subsequent decades. The peak of the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1956, following the Suez Crisis. The emigrations from the other countries of North Africa peaked in the 1960s. Lebanon was the only Arab country that saw an increase in its Jewish population during this period, due to an influx of Jews from other Arab countries, though this was temporary—by the mid-1970s, the Jewish community of Lebanon had also dwindled. 600,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries had relocated to Israel by 1972,[7][8][9][10] while another 300,000 migrated to France and the United States. Today, the descendants of Jews who immigrated to Israel from other Middle Eastern lands (known as Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews) constitute more than half of the total Israeli population.[11] This is due in part to their higher fertility rate, particularly vis-à-vis the country's Ashkenazi Jews.[12] In 2009, only 26,000 Jews remained in Arab countries and Iran,[13] as well as another 26,000 in Turkey.[14] By 2019, the total number of Jews in Arab countries and Iran had declined to 12,700,[15] and in Turkey to 14,800.[16]

I'm glad you agree that ethnic cleansing is bad, bro. Here sign the petition: Sign the Petition

 

[Augustine_]

Then, boy, Hamas should not have mass murdered 1,700 Israelis.

Don't you understand that the Arabs can never succeed because they cannot compete with the Jews?

Hamas should not have murdered those people. Now Israel is eclipsing their evil on a daily basis. With ease, not because Jews are superior to Arabs or vice versa, but because there are 2 supercarrier fleets floating off the coast preventing anybody from stopping the war crimes being inflicted on Gaza's population.

 

[Roudy]

I'm glad you agree that ethnic cleansing is bad, bro. Here sign the petition: Sign the Petition

Except there is no such thing as Palestine and Palestinians. It’s a name a bunch of Arab invaders and squatters hijacked circa 1970‘s, in order to remove the Jews from their religious, ancestral and cultural homeland going back thousands of years.

 

[Dante]

Waging unending war has consequences. You want the Palis to be able to indiscriminately murder Jews without consequence. Are you next going to argue that Poland should return land that formerly belonged to Germany?

These people in the West Bank are not waging a war. They aren't even allowed to posses a firearm.
Nope.
Nope.

And this is the West Bank and not the Gaza Strip.

The article addresses Israeli and International law on these types of incidents and type of campaign.

 

[Blaster]

so why wont they take them in?.....why not Saudi Arabia,they got lots of land?.....

They don't want that scum in their country.

 

[Augustine_]

Except there is no such thing as Palestine and Palestinians. It’s a name a bunch of Arab invaders and squatters hijacked circa 1970‘s, in order to remove the Jews from their religious, ancestral and cultural homeland going back thousands of years.

The internet exists, dude. This isn't the 80's where you can just invent propaganda and engage in unquestioned vicious murder because of it. It's the easiest thing in the world to search and find out that "Palestine" and "Palestinian" are words that have been in use for centuries.

 

[Roudy]

The internet exists, dude. This isn't the 80's where you can just invent propaganda and engage in unquestioned vicious murder because of it. It's the easiest thing in the world to search and find out that "Palestine" and "Palestinian" are words that have been in use for centuries.

Let us hear what other Arabs have said:​

"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".​

- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -​

"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".​

- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -​

"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".​

- Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -​