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Originally Posted by blankall
Firstly, the Jewish expulsions had started prior to the creation of Israel. Secondly, blaming further expulsions on Israel is ridiculous. It's like saying, a black kid hit me. Then I go around hitting all the smaller black kids. Now me attacking the smaller kids, is the fault of the one that hit me. I'm sorry, people take responsibility for their own actions. Israel did not hold a gun to the heads of the arabs leaders and force them to strip their Jewish populations of basic rights. They did so because they were bigots. Ironically enough, these refugees now make up the majority of the Jewish population of Israel. Israel would not exist without these expulsions.
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The vast majority of the expulsions occured after the UN vote in 1947. You also can't in the same argument say that all Jews can't be held accountable for the actions of a few Zionists and then argue that the expulsion of Palestinians is justified because their Arab brothers decided to expel some Jews. What Iraq, Syria, Egypt, etc. did with their Jewish population is not the Palestinian's problem.