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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Also, the Jews controlled the region in question? Not at ANY time in history prior to the UN creation of Israel did the Jews control the region
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Nice try:
"Starting around the 11th century
BCE the first of a series of
Jewish kingdoms and states established intermittent rule over the
region that lasted more than a
millennium.
Under
Assyrian,
Babylonian,
Persian,
Greek,
Roman,
Byzantine, and (briefly)
Sassanian rule, Jewish presence in the region dwindled because of mass expulsions. In particular, the failure of the
Bar Kochba Revolt against the
Roman Empire in
132 CE resulted in a
large-scale expulsion of Jews. It was during this time that the Romans gave the name
Syria Palaestina to the geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land.
[7]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Historical_roots
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" Blankall: Your totally failing to realize facts on the ground. Israel is there and the people who live there are not going to lay down and die. The only way towards peace is for people to realize and accept that. Why would Isrealies chose to live as minorities under arab regimes that make it illegal to practice other religions openly? "
Lanny" What about the Palestinians who were there before the creation of Israel? What about them? Don't they count? It was okay to force them to do something they didn't want to do, but demanding the Jews do the same thing is wrong?"
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Which is why the two-state solution is the one to work on.
Past Israeli governments have uprooted Jewish populations - for erecting non-sanctioned settlements (trailers on hilltops) - unilaterally, as in Gaza, and from the Sinai Peninsula in return for peace with Egypt.
And they will have to up-root more communities for peace.