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2005-12-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian Refugees - What Happened in 1948?

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Posted by Whealet Angolusing5641 2005-12-29 18:24|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whatever, it was THREE generations ago. There is NO way to restore the past. War sucks. It always screws somebody (maybe nearly everybody.) To me it seems like a whole lot more Jews were expelled over the years from Arab lands than Arabs from Israel, even assuming the Palestinian version of history and counting population growth since then. As far as I can tell, the Jews 'took' the historical land of Judea (which means land of the Jews?), an area with negligible natural resources and minimal Islamic historical significance, and made something of it, to the point where the Arabs who stayed are about the most free and wealthy in the entire Arab world (excepting 'royal' families). In a 'fair' world the rest of the Arab nations would have absorbed the fairly small number of 'expelled' and moved on, but instead they concentrated on making the problem grow. And grow. And grow. To where it is now inevitably going to lead to some kind of Armageddon where nobody 'wins' anything.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-12-29 19:34|| 2005-12-29 19:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Naw, nothing so tricky. Just another KnackBar.

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-29 20:15|| 2005-12-29 20:15|| Front Page Top

#3 the Paleos have indicated no ownership, stewardship, nor commen sense values... I vote for "wasteland"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 22:14|| 2005-12-29 22:14|| Front Page Top

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