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Originally Posted by blankall
Well it's pretty likely that there wouldn't be as many Jews owning property under the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman empire gave preferential property rights to muslims, and unfairly taxed Jews. Jews had also been forcibly expelled from the region that is now Israel many many times. I'm not talking about ancient expulsions thousands of years ago either. Recent expulsions included in 1750 when all Jews were removed from Jerusalem. In 1834 the Jewish quarer of Safed was destroyed and progroms were instituted against the Jews of Jerusalem. In 1929 the entire Jewish community of Hebron was decimated.
But maybe you're right, we should just freeze the clock at the moment when the Jews are in the weekest position and the Arabs in the strongest, and then use that moment as the final benchmark to make claims about who belongs where.
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I think you're generally making good points, but I can't help but recognize the sheer irony in them.
This is probably why there will be no solution for that region until people really want to sit down and genuinely work to recognize each other's plight.