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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Oh I do, I just recognise that is exists because we in the UK gave away a country that wasn't ours to give away and screwed over hundreds of thousands of the locals in the process, I accept that if I was a 21 year old unemployed Arab kid living in a slum on the West Bank or Gaza listening to my Grandfather talking about the little farm they used to have until '49 or 67 or 72 I would feel angry.
In a hundred years or so Palestinians will probably not be as angry but I understand why they are now, it is exactly the same as why my native foster kids feel angry, we have everything and for the most part they have nothing of a country that we took from them.
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The Balfour declaration didn't create any refugees. It divided to the area based on who was living there at the time. The subsequent failed invasion of Israel created the refugees.