TheGreatGatsby
Gold Member
Which proves what?Nice map. I like how it pretends that Palestine was ever recognized country in 1946.
You're conflating national sovereignty with private property...like orange groves in Jaffa, for example:
"Some of the most difficult stories are those of the Palestinian farmers and peasants from the villages of the Jaffa district.
"They describe how they were forced off of their land, how they managed to stay in Palestine, how the Israeli government handed their land over to Jewish settlers, and how these settlers then hired the same Palestinian farmers to work on their own land as day laborers exploited for the personal profit of the Jewish settler off the produce of the land that Palestinians had cultivated for generations.
"In fact, after their properties and enterprises were seized or shut down, the vast majority of the Jaffa Palestinians who remained became cheap labor for Jewish employers.
"Their employment was contingent on their 'loyalty' to the new state.
"And so it was that the people who ran the economic hub of Palestine before 1948, became its orphans feigning loyalty to the ones who orphaned them in order to feed their own children."
Jaffa from eminence to ethnic cleansing The Electronic Intifada
They were lucky to be allowed to have the option of keeping their lands after they lost a war, which Israel fought for the sake of their own survival. Palestine's never brought anything to the table in this conflict. I can't tell you how many times they've been offered adequate two state solutions and then rejected it; which was mighty generous in the first place when you consider that the Jews had already been relegated to living on a sliver of the middle east. You're fond of maps that show populations, how about you get one that shows the Jews relative to the Arabs in the mideast, and then cry me a river.