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Old 11-01-2007, 05:29 PM   #106
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Regardless of who controlled the land...individual people owned individual houses and now live in permanent refugee camps, whilst the people who drove them from their homes occupy those houses or houses built upon the land the Palestinian family vacated.
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Old 11-01-2007, 05:29 PM   #107
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There has never been a minute in the last 3000 years where Jews did not live in the area known as Israel. The Arabs who lived there did not ever own a single grain of sand let alone any actual land. The land was owned by various empires. The Roman, Egyptian, Ottoman, and British empires all owned it at different times.

Those who lived on the land (Jews and Arabs) didn't own the land during these years. When the land was given to them in 1947, it was the first time any Arabs had owned any part of the land they were squatting on.

Israel is the home of the Jews in the same way China is the homeland of the Chinese. To claim otherwise is either dishonest or laughably stupid.
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Old 11-01-2007, 05:30 PM   #108
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Regardless of who controlled the land...individual people owned individual houses and now live in permanent refugee camps, whilst the people who drove them from their homes occupy those houses or houses built upon the land the Palestinian family vacated.
Oh, so if you own land that you don't live on, and I build a house on it. You're the bad guy when you tear down the house and make me leave?
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:01 PM   #109
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Israel is the home of the Jews in the same way China is the homeland of the Chinese. To claim otherwise is either dishonest or laughably stupid.
Nope. Jews predate Israel.
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:05 PM   #110
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Oh, so if you own land that you don't live on, and I build a house on it. You're the bad guy when you tear down the house and make me leave?
If I am the Israelis in this instance then I never owned the land in the first place. Somebody bigger than me stole it from you and handed me the keys.
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:09 PM   #111
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I always assume Zionists think we should give NY & or FL back to the Native Americans & TX back to Mexico.
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:45 PM   #112
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If somebody stole my land I'd convince my children to blow themselves up in those people's buses and pizza shops!

Oh, no wait, I wouldn't. I'd get over it. I'd love my children and teach them to love.
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:48 PM   #113
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What if you and your children were living in cramped unhealthy conditions and they risked a sniper bullet in the head when they left the house?
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:52 PM   #114
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maybe if i (and my neighbors)didn't send them out with explosives on them i wouldn't have to worry about snipers.
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Old 11-01-2007, 06:56 PM   #115
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Suicide bombing is a relatively new phenomenon. I do believe it is a response to the brutalising effects of occupation. And the effects are brutal.
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:06 PM   #116
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it's not a response. it is a choice. a response is when the doctor hits your knee with a hammer and your leg bounces. A causes B. I'm pretty sure that no man, woman, or child has every woken up and thought "this occuption sucks" and spontaneously exploded.

I'm not suggesting that the situation is anything less than shit, but blowing yourself and non-combatants up is not a response to anything other than a persons fucked up allegiance to a misguided notion.
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:08 PM   #117
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I'm pretty sure that no man, woman, or child has every woken up and thought "this occuption sucks" and spontaneously exploded
My brain did. You can see evidence of it all over this message board.
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:12 PM   #118
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Nope. Jews predate Israel.
Yep. Chinese people predate China, but China is still the home of the Chinese people exactly the same way that Israel is the homeland of the Jews.
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:13 PM   #119
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If I am the Israelis in this instance then I never owned the land in the first place. Somebody bigger than me stole it from you and handed me the keys.
No, if you're Israel, someone stole it from you, someone stole it from them, someone stole it from them, and then that person broke it in pieces and give you some of it back.
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Old 11-01-2007, 07:15 PM   #120
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If somebody stole my land I'd convince my children to blow themselves up in those people's buses and pizza shops!

Oh, no wait, I wouldn't. I'd get over it. I'd love my children and teach them to love.
Excellent point, though to be more accurate, the land was never yours to begin with so it wasn't stolen from you.
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