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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
AFC, I will dispute some of that comment. Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years and are the indigenous people there, at least that is what they believe. They did not create Israel to kick out Palestinians either, the nation was built as a nation to offer a safe space for Jews, but welcoming to other people, including those already there (now called Palestinians).
Crap hit the fan when Israel was invaded after the UN partition and here we are. I would say that invading Israel did not work out well for Palestinians, but Egypt and Jordan have made peace with Israel since. Palestinians have instead brought terror attack after terror attack.
It isn't exactly fair to say Israel stole the country, that is not true.
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None of that matters though, in practice there was a land that those Palestinian families lived on for centuries, maybe a thousand years, they lived there under the Ottomans, they lived there under the Mamelukes and the British, a fair chunk of them were no doubt Jewish or Samaritan originally and converted for a quiet life so long ago the family has forgotten, they converted to Islam when the Umayyads or the abbasids took over, they lost everything in '49 and found themselves in Gaza as refugees, you can argue that 'Palestine' wasn't stolen but their farm was, they used to have a little land and now they dont, it wasnt even their fault they lost it, Egypt and Jordan started a war, now I would guess the average Palestinian was rooting for the Arab legion to win but they weren't part of it, they just lost everything because of it