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"The Jews have no historic claim to Israel |
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There is only one people who have continuously lived in Israel for the past 3,700 years - the Jews. Jerusalem, in particular, has had a Jewish majority since the 1840's, 40 years prior to the beginnings of Zionism. Seventy-five percent of the land in east Jerusalem, which the press calls "Historically Arab east Jeruaslem", has been owned by Jews since 1947. The nations that inhabited the land prior the Jews are no longer in existence, for they have been absorbed into various other peoples throughout the millennia. The Arabs of Israel only came to the land in 632 with the Muslim invasion. |
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"The Land of Israel is really the land of Palestine |
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The term "Palestine" is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century B.C., settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century A.D, after the curshing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word "Filastin" is derived from Latin. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinain cluture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinian are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. |
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"The creation of the State of Israel, in 1948, changed political and border arrangements between independent states that had existed for centuries" |
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The boundaries of most Middle East countries were arbitrarily fixed by the Western powers after Turkey was defeated in World War I and the French and British mandates were set up. The areas allotted to Israel under the UN Partition Plan had all been under the control of the Ottomans, who had ruled Palestine from 1517-1917. When Turkey was defeated in World War I, the French took over the area now known as Lebanon and Syria. The Brtitsh assumed control of Palestine and Iraq. In 1926, the borders were redrawn and Lebanon was separated from Syria. Britain installed the Emir Fasial, who had been deposed by the French in Syria,as ruler of the new kingdom of Iraq. In 1922, the British created the emirate of Transjordan, which incorprated all Palestine east of the Jordan River. This was done so that the Emir Abdullah, whose family had been defeated in tribal warfare in the Arabian peninsula, whould have a Kingdom to rule. None of the countries that border Israel become independent until this cenutury. Many other Arab nations become independent after Israel. |
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"Israel violates the Human rights of the Palestinian Arabs" |
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The FACT's are differnet. Israel granted full citizenship to all of the Palestinian arab who fell within its borders after the War of Independece. Arabic is an official language in Israel. Isreal remains to this day one of the few countries in the Middle East where Arab can legitimately vote and the only where women can vote. |
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