KeyboardJockey said:
It ws agreed that the Land of Israel would be returned to the Jews who were unjustly removed from their homeland by the Romans. In many cases although there were forced expulsions of Arabs from Israeli territory there were equally many more cases where Israeli's who bought land from Arab land owners at a fair market price but unfortunately said land contained Arab tenant farmers who had to be removed from the land as they had no right to remain after the land was sold.
see i think in reality you'd be hard pressed if asked to prove a linage dating back to the romans of nearly anyone on the planet other than proably some family in rome... historical accuracy is far from exact on this really and there can be no real defence of this kind of thinking to say well sorry they may have lived there since biblical times but prior to that we lived there is no basis for land claims, none...
will the original settlers desendants of sohos forest enclaves be evicting current tennents shortly based on their eviction from the village in order to perpetuate royal hunting grounds...
should the the native americans rise up now and lay claim to the WTC crash site and all of new york and lasy it to waste based on the histroical theift of land? is this what you are sacantioning... that the confirmed indiginious peoples return to where they started on the planet before their started migrating by force or by choice and reclaim their ancestral lands on the notion of some shared commonality of history which genus is now lost forever in time... if so i'm up for it i can't wait... it'll be all mad max though could i guess desttroy all modern advancements and totally lay waste to all forms of civility communication or anything else that has progressed in the near 3000 year hence... but hey if we need to do this ... you get the point n'est pas...
it's a tad different to say people who less than 50 years ago were removed from their homes by a war which was illiegal and has been found to be so should nto return to their homes...
your right their might well be a prior claim for land redistribution due to the roman jewish disporia however, this would need to be taken up with the current italian government and claims filed, surely, not taken out on the people who now live here... i mean there are ways and means no?
for example nazi war art stolen from jewish families now then is it appropreate to break into houses and steal the art back? or should the repropreation be done via the formal channels... again you get the point...
KeyboardJockey said:
Some of the land should go back but I dont' think that the Arabs should be allowed to return.
all of the land should go back. for the reasosn stated above... all back to 1947, sorry but that's what was allocated for better or worse that's all that isreal is entitled too. all that is mandated. you cannot say well all the art should be returned by i like that painting so you can't have it... it doesn't wash.
KeyboardJockey said:
It would upset the demographic too much.
no not really isreals boarders would need to be adjusted back to the correct areas the demogrpahic wouldn't be affected... unless you are attempting to suggest (which again i hope not) that isrealis wouldn't want or could not tollerate having palestinian neighbours... or some such racist notion ...
KeyboardJockey said:
It would be far better to resettle the Arabs who were removed from Israel at the inception of the state with a healthy recompense (which incidentally is a far better deal than the Jews were offered when they were dispossessed of their state).
this is a different matter those dispossed at the creation of isreal are the people now fighting the people fighting are the ones who have been dispossed as a result of the nakbah and the 1967 war... not the creation of isreal. i think you are getting confused here with your history...
again the roman dispossesion of isreal old is a different matter and has nil baring on palestinian dispossestion it's flawed to lump the two together as your mum prolly said two wrongs don't make a right...
KeyboardJockey said:
They still have to talk at some point though.
they will the current movements of anti militariseation in isreal couplled with the realatively short fused rise of the far right in isreali politics (sharron didn't have a hope in hell in of governence in the 1980's) will change indeed it is changing 10 years ago consienious objection was nearly unheard of indeed it was still a crime arrestable and imprisonable, you were encouraged to claim mental instablity and were interned in mental institutions etc the old pleed insainity clause to get out of the army... this is changing, slowly but surely... and as long as this change happens then the time for talking will be of course merely a case of a generational change... it will happen... the will is such on the ground... just as in most areas which are split or divided there will come a time when they decide to stop killing and start talking...
KeyboardJockey said:
If the Arabs cease attacking Israel with suicide bombs etc then it might persuade Israelli's that there is milage to be gained in reining in it's military.
again you are putting the horse before the cart. the aggressive acts are those of isreal not of palestine. that's not to dismiss the actions of palesitians or their militant groups, but it is an action of reltaiation for actions, in the wider context, all resisitance to isreal occupation and actions is retalitiation. it's a resisitance to prevent themselves or their cultural aspects to be sujigated by the occupation forces... that's the reality. the driving force behind isreali acitons is to reenforce their hold on the area and to also poltically dominate the knessett with the miliartisitc will, in essence isreal is currently a milatary with a state rather than a state with a milatary. this power balance is so badly out of kilter that all actions are reported as the defence of isreal and the attack of palestine, it needs to be phrased in such manner just as the UK's war in iraq needs to be phrased in such a manner in order to justify the actions to prevent civil unrest I mean if the papers in the uk said actually we're just massicering them fuck it we've got no clue that's your tax hard at work... we kill kids woo hoo etc it wouldn't go down well at all and would lead to shorter than usuall govermental lifespan...y'know...
so this pretence is needed the charade has to be kept up...
in reality there have been significant attacks on palestinians every day of every year for over 35 years... yet the level of palestinain reltaiation in comparision to this is frankly almost non exisitant... it's not to say they don't attack but if you drew a graph by comparison the scales of the axis would need to be so far part as to render the palestian figures near flat... it'd be like shooting some ones famliy dead for some one placing a thumb tack on your seat... by way of comparision, and no matter how bloody painful that was it's not and excuse to wipe out a family... period...
KeyboardJockey said:
they can and one day they will. this is an eventuality, and a reality that even the isreali goernement admit too...
KeyboardJockey said:
As I said before a lot of the land was sold by Arab land owners to settlers to the New Israel.
intrestingly the methods used here would be consdiered by most as obtaining goods by deception... also you may wish to look into how much isreal spend per head on the general population and how much on the settler population ... i think you'd be shocked as to where isreals taxation is being spent and what consiquences it's having on the stability and security of isreal whole...
KeyboardJockey said:
Besides wasn't TransJordan going to be a home for the Palestinians anyway.
erm no all of the west bank and gaza as mandated in 1947 were going to be for the palestinians.....and besides, it's a no go area for palestinians now anyway... it's been annexed as part of the mala addumim settlement ... to prevent palestinian access to jeruselm ...
KeyboardJockey said:
It doesn't have to be 150k it could be a plot of land, and a support package somewhere else.
erm no sorry falwed thinking... would you be happy with my previous suggestion of me taking over your home and you can just find some where else...