Your "yes" answer is factually and historically incorrect. Following tne end of WWII, Israel was occupied by the British. The Israelis didn't steal anything - they kicked the Brits out and claimed their land and established an independent State.
Let me guess - your preferred news source is Al Jezeera; the Holocaust never happened; the Yom Kippur and 6-Day wars are fabrications; and Iran wants to be friends with Israel.
Israel's Trail Of Tears. Should The U.N. Give Israel Back To The Palestinians?
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In 1948 the UN stole the land of Israel from the people who already lived there. Should they have to give it back?
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Gunner 2012/05/16 11:12:30
who would be okay with israel and what it does except for the religiously brainwashed? how does anyone support this racist ,apartheid state that runs the world's largest concentration camp? and deny's others their basic human rights?
Ben-Gurion declared. "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country."
Arafat could not accept it. Barak, backed by Clinton, wanted assurance of Israel’s continued strategic control over the West Bank and Gaza, including air space and borders, and insisted that Israel retain permanent sovereignty over most of East Jerusalem, including Haram Al-Sharif. This was a deal no Arab would accept.
What do Palestinians want and deserve? In a word: justice.
They want sovereign statehood - no ifs, ands, buts or maybe next time.
They want it comprised of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - 22% of historic Palestine, not parts only in isolated pieces.
They want control over their shoreline and air space.
They want fixed borders and unfragmented territorial integrity, not isolated cantons on worthless scrub land constituting no state at all.
They want Israel's illegal occupation ended.
They want unauthorized incursions on their land called naked aggression.
They want international law provisions enforced, including UN Charter Chapter VII, Article 51, saying nations may attack another only in self-defense. Even then, it's only until the Security Council acts as the final arbiter on matters of international peace and security.
They want freedom over their own lives.
They want decades of Israeli st...
Arafat could not accept it. Barak, backed by Clinton, wanted assurance of Israel’s continued strategic control over the West Bank and Gaza, including air space and borders, and insisted that Israel retain permanent sovereignty over most of East Jerusalem, including Haram Al-Sharif. This was a deal no Arab would accept.
What do Palestinians want and deserve? In a word: justice.
They want sovereign statehood - no ifs, ands, buts or maybe next time.
They want it comprised of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - 22% of historic Palestine, not parts only in isolated pieces.
They want control over their shoreline and air space.
They want fixed borders and unfragmented territorial integrity, not isolated cantons on worthless scrub land constituting no state at all.
They want Israel's illegal occupation ended.
They want unauthorized incursions on their land called naked aggression.
They want international law provisions enforced, including UN Charter Chapter VII, Article 51, saying nations may attack another only in self-defense. Even then, it's only until the Security Council acts as the final arbiter on matters of international peace and security.
They want freedom over their own lives.
They want decades of Israeli state terror ended.
They want no more of their land stolen.
They want access to every international convention and institution able to help them.
They want diaspora refugees freely able to return as codified in international law.
On December 11, 1948, UN Resolution 194 "(r)esolve(d) that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation (paid by responsible governments or authorities) should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return...."
Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his (or her) own, and to return to his (or her) country."
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states:
"No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his (or her) own country."
In short, they want and deserve the same rights as all citizens. Sadly, too few have them, but no one anywhere should quit struggling for what's right, especially those long-suffering and denied.
20% of the land was purchased from the Arab owners. Most of the rest was public land, owned by whomever ruled: the Turks, the Brits, etc.
50% of the Arabs chose to stay in Israel. Why is that?
The other 50% fled at the urging of Egyptian radio. They made themselves refugees. It's long past time for other countries to take in these refugees. Their Arab "brothers" have been keeping them in refugee camps for decades.
LOL LOL wow,you really fell for those tall tales didn't you?
I know a few of these folks. and they are not Jewish or Arab which makes them neurtral.
The BS comes from the lies handed down from generation to generation within a terrorist community.
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