So the Palestinian refugees are apparently nothing of the sort
Wow. This is a game-changer in a lot of ways. It totally refutes the so-called "right-of-return" of Palestinian "refugees" by noting that they aren't refugees at all - they willingly left in the first place!
The fact that they are still called refugees when they have their own country (I use the term loosely) with self rule (looser yet), shows that facts have little to do with media reporting.
If they have their own nation, that they rule, just who the hell are they refugees from? Themselves? They left voluntarily from what is now Israel, they were not chased out.
They, meaning the Palestinians and other Arab states in general, have fought several wars over the years to destroy Israel. And lost every one.
They may be a lot of different things but refugees are not one of them.
Whether or not the State of Israel should have been created is a different question, and not relevant any more.
Israel does exist, and the people of Israel have a right both to their country and to exist as a people by two firm historical precedents.
Precedent one - The State of Israel was in fact created and recognized by the fledgling UN. This is minor but nonetheless important.
Precedent two - The State of Israel has proven its status as a nation state by force of arms. The most important precedent, and the ONLY one of any meaning throughout history.
It is long past time for the world to realize that and quit portraying the Palestinians as the good natured but put upon underdog.
They are nothing of the sort. They are a thuggish country determined to destroy Israel. Without the capability to fight them conventionally so they use other means. And by other means they skipped straight to terrorism.
If a neighbor of any European country, say France for example, were to act that way, how do you think the media would portray that?
Not to mention France would exercise far less restraint in that situation than Israel does.
In fact any European nation would stomp the terrorist country flat without question.
The United States said that there will be an Israel.
All other arguments are moot.
Quote from another recent source-
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/06...
There are no such people as Palestinians and there never have been. Nor was there ever a state called Palestine or a Palestinian culture or a Palestinian language.
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Up to the end of the British mandate the only people who were Palestinians were the Jews, the Arabs refused the name. Many of the Arabs were recent arrivals. The UN changed the definition of "refugee" from its prior meaning of persons normally and traditionally resident, to those who fled from a place they lived in for a minimum of only two years prior to 1948.
One of the major instigators of the Arab mass departure was the Grand Mufti al-Husseini, a supporter of Hitler who gave speeches in the Balkans to pep up the Muslim segment to fight for the Nazis.
The youtube linked by Map is so full of errors it is hard to comment on it except to say it is pure propaganda.
There are more than 50 Muslim countries. The number of refugees they have accepted is a couple of thousand, many of those in Iraq and Jordan have been expelled (perhaps with reason). The West (Australia, Canada, USA, western Europe) has taken about 15 million Muslims.
One of mysteries of human nature:
a LGBT supporting Islam, a libertarian promoting bigotry.
Instead it has been used as an excuse for hegemony.
Should I bother responding and correcting this vile piece of propaganda, or should I deny you the attention you so desperately want?
Go away, troll. There's a bridge that misses you.