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Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Jews Do Not ‘Occupy’ Their Own Homeland [View all]aranthus
(3,386 posts)80. See, you think that having a country is discrimnation.
Unless that country is some homogenous valueless automaton. That isn't the way the world works. That isn't the way that people live.
You don't know jack about America if you think that it has no dominant culture. That isn't racist. It's the way people live. The Jews are entitled to a Jewish state just as much as America is entitled to be an American state, as France is entitled to be a French state, etc. No democratic country would think my ideas were racist, because they don't have anything to do with race. ON the other hand, there are very good reasons to not take you seriously. We're done. Have a nice day.
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There was a lot of Arab immigration into Palestine. Ever heard of Robert Kennedy?
shira
Oct 2016
#32
William Ziff's 1937 Rape of Palestine shows mass immigration during British occupation....
shira
Nov 2016
#38
You've learned what? You're still a fan of the discredited admitted revisionist Pappe.
shira
Nov 2016
#60
There are already people who have lived for generations on the land. Most of them are not jewish.
pennylane100
Oct 2016
#15
Does every ethnicity/nationality have a claim to the land where they lived 2,000-odd years ago?
malchickiwick
Oct 2016
#9
Not at all. Do you advocate acknowledging those rights only selectively? n/t
malchickiwick
Oct 2016
#14
Don't the Palestinians also have indigenous rights? Palestinians = Philistines,
malchickiwick
Oct 2016
#33
No one is arguing they don't, only that the Jews aren't thieves, colonists, occupiers. N/T
shira
Nov 2016
#37
If you're worried about discrimination then you should oppose racist efforts to deny Jews' rights...
shira
Nov 2016
#67
As to everyone living in their ancestral homeland, Palestinians in Gaza, W.Bank, Jordan....
shira
Nov 2016
#68
But Tich, you ethnically discriminate all the time, not wanting Jews in the W.Bank....
shira
Nov 2016
#79
Well they do, but that's off the table b/c as Jews they're not allowed to live there....
shira
Nov 2016
#83
the history of the israelites make it very clear how they came to "own" judea nt
msongs
Oct 2016
#17