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Israel/Palestine

Igel

(36,087 posts)

6. The current status is that Jews live in the West Bank only because they're settlers.

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 10, 2016, 06:06 PM

Sep 2016

Jews had a more than 2000-year history of living in the West Bank until Jordan took it over.

It was Judenrein after that, because Jordan ethnically cleansed Jews. Even under the Ottomans, considered enlightened and tolerant, it was illegal for Jews to own land in Palestine. It's still illegal to sell land to Jews in the West Bank according to the law that the PA says is in force, so to say that the settlers must all leave is to restore the Judenrein quality imposed by the Jordanians.

That's not international law. It's the result of ethnic hatred and ethnic purging of the population. Now, the bit about taking private land and moving settlers there, that's international law, but only later international law, enforced only sporadically in a not unbiased way.

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Netanyahu 'ethnic cleansing' comment against Palestinians draws U.S. rebuke [View all] Eugene Sep 2016 OP

Bibi is an animal. nt WhiteTara Sep 2016 #1

This asshat needs to be ostracized by all world leaders til he's run out of office. InAbLuEsTaTe Sep 2016 #2

Do you believe Jews have a right to live in East Jerusalem & Hebron? n/t shira Sep 2016 #5

It's not ethnic cleansing - it's international law. n/t Little Tich Sep 2016 #3

Should Jews be allowed to live in East Jerusalem & Hebron? shira Sep 2016 #4

It's all very hypothetical, with the two-state solution being dead and all that. Little Tich Sep 2016 #8

How ridiculous. The settlements could be transferred to Palestine.... shira Sep 2016 #10

I'm confused... Little Tich Sep 2016 #11

The settlements would be absorbed into the new Pal'n state. shira Sep 2016 #14

Do you have anything more concrete than your own assertions? Little Tich Sep 2016 #15

WHY NOT LET THE SETTLERS STAY IN PALESTINE? shira Sep 2016 #17

I think the only reasonable response to that argument is a map of the West Bank: Little Tich Sep 2016 #19

Not much of a response when your argument is Jews don't belong in the WB. shira Sep 2016 #20

My own assertions? "Far-left group: Palestinian citizenship for Jews" shira Sep 2016 #23

Here's an UNCTAD report that details some of the costs of the occupation. Little Tich Sep 2016 #12

Allowing tax-paying Palestinian Jews to live there would help the economy. shira Sep 2016 #21

The current status is that Jews live in the West Bank only because they're settlers. Igel Sep 2016 #6

Well put... shira Sep 2016 #7

The settlement project isn't reversible, and in the current and all possible future scenarios the Little Tich Sep 2016 #9

You haven't explained how Jews living within settlements within a future Palestine.... shira Sep 2016 #22

Trump Campaign Sides With Netanyahu: Palestinians Seek 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Jews Little Tich Sep 2016 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Sep 2016 #16

It's within living memory. aranthus Sep 2016 #18

Thoughts on Bibi's last video (re ethnic cleansing): shira Sep 2016 #24

Einat Wilf interviewed about Netanyahu's comment on Ethnic Cleansing shira Sep 2016 #25

For once, I'm not sure he's wrong Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #26