Sunday, December 18, 2011

Why did the israelis displace the palestinians??

I have the sneaking suspicion that you aren't looking for an answer you don't already agree with. Anyway, I'm not quite sure what you mean by Israel "displacing" Palestinians. I can only ume you refer to the refugee issue. During the Israeli War of Independence these refugees were created. Now they weren't neccessarily displaced by Israel; rather they voluntarily left their homes to ease the arab struggle against Israel. Even if that's not true, and it's a strong 'even', and Israel in fact caused this displacement of arabs any potential complaint is rendered moot by the influx of even more Jewish refugees from Arab lands. If this question is about the Palestinian refugees as it seems to be, then the answer is that your opinion is contested and it ignores the other side of the coin. Now if we're being more general, then you should know that up to the war all Jewish land in Israel was obtained legally and none was "stolen". Last thing, for a country that's supposedly very racist against arabs and supposedly wants to/is commiting acts of genocide, Israel has a rather large Israeli arab population. Obviously Israel did not "displace" all the arabs living within Israel's borders. In fact, with 1.5 million living in Israel today it doesn't even seem like they displaced half.

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