Originally Posted by beka

Fine some of the Palestinians lived in the Palestinian mandate for 2 years, but then one can ask how long did the Jewish refugees live there? The fact is that even if some of the Palestinians were "new" the Arabs where still the overwhelming majority in that land well before the mandate of Israel. Oh I get it, your argument is not working, so suddenly its not about "new" anymore, and now its about how many people were there. A timely aboutface. This is an undisputed fact. And even articles written by Zionist leaders will say that yes Well then why are you paraphrasing and not just directly citing from said articles? , the best land was owned by Arabs, the Arabs populated the land These articles also expressed understanding why the Arabs didn't welcome the Jewish settles with open arms... No one welcomes anyone with open arms. Welcome to the real world. Moot point.

As for their being Jewish people living on the land, yes there was. And yes they have rights. But the before the 1900's, the Jewish people made up what 1 percent? And even when the British made that particular promise there was still hardly any Jewish people there.
In fact, half of the people living in Israel are immigrants and they have more rights than the Palestinians As I said the use of the word Palestinian here does not make much sense. There was not such thing as a Palestinian identity. The British classifed by territory. That means all those Jews who moved there is the 1920s/30s/40s would also be called Palestinians. who were born on the land? Is that fair. Life is not fair. A Palestinian who marries an Israeli cannot even get citizenship.

As for the Mexicans, yes the came to our country, and you have people complaining. But they haven't said, we are coming into America to build a New Mexico, where we will set up our own government based on our own traditions. Have you seen some of these border towns? Have you been to Miami where people in stores will scoff at English speakers rather then helping them? No, most Mexicans want to just participate in the American democracy etc. Their children learn English and assimilate. Oh so if Jews came in and assimilated then the Mufti of Jerusalem wouldn't be telling everyone to kill them, and everyone would like them to stay just fine? The last time before the creating of Israel, Germany's Jews were the most assimilated. It obviously didn't help their security much. It's a completely different scenario.



They aren't hear to create a nation where the elite will be Mexican and everyone else will be second class.