Invisible: It is not as you are imagining. People are not fools. The area was never Ethnical Cleansed, as we can see by the many Arab setltements. Negev has how many Bedua? 130,00 to 140,000 including illegal settlements and nomadic encampments. there has also always been "Palestinians" in the area, no matter what you might think.
Yet, even knowing those Arabs lived there, we alos know the land is ours. For 2000 years of Exile we prayed in that direction, toasted it in out feasts, paryed about it daily. Make no mistake, Israelis are not children. Most know both sides of the dynamic. Most also know that no less than 4 Qassams have been hitting their streets despite our govt. having ceded Gaza fully.
"Gifthorse." Um, the land is the Jewish Homeland. Jews know this. Sorry if foreigners sometimes miss that point. THAT soil is iterally made with our bones.
This is reality.
"Reason why Invisible posted that article about the Galillean village..." Yes, ok, but why did you not tell us that? You posted it as is and that leads people to believe it is soem kind of irrefutable source. Of course many people remember what they want but EVERY THING the Arabs claimed was false save for the tombstones being in disrrepair and in going to my wife's family cemetery yesterday I saw the same thing it does not mean they are set for genocide. Things like that happen especially when the people who are related to those deceased disappear (i.e. flee into Lebanon).
Spion: See, this is what lets me know you have never been to the region. Jews, almost all, feel exactly the same as anyone, even "Palestinians." The enemy is terror, not Arabs. Arabs are closer to us than you as a whiteman could ever be. You miss this important point. We are both Semites. We are both tribal People. We are both devoted to family and home. You inisting that Israelis feel above others shows you have never been there.
Granted, you COULD just be delusional or a muckraker but I feel you are sincere in your feelings and are at least marginally in control of your actions so I believe you lie.
"Heated deabate among Zionists at the time about what they were doing." Yes, you rely on people like Morris to tell you this. Sorry but he was expposed in my country long ago. There are many reasons why people fail to take him seriously. Like many here he omits many passages both in context AND in excerpts directly attributed to a source. He mistranslates words like "evacuation" and instead nsters "eviction." BIG DIFFERENCE there.
Can I ask you Spion, have you EVER bothered to research Israel's position? I do relaise it would be way out of your comfort zone but it might help you to be taken seriously by more than then 8 synchophants here who echo you. You might finally obtain a modicum of integrity.
I can just imagine what peope here would say if I posted Israeli Govt. maps.
"Away from your books." Fair enough. But are your books from the Arab perspective? Try taking the Israeli one for balance.