Remember that while I feel sorry for both parts I'm heavily biased so don't accept anything I write at face value but check it. On the other hand, unlike mainstream media and many who "support the Palestinian[1] cause" I'll be up front about it and ask you to verify yourself without referring you to more heavily biased sources.
> with policies in place to evict Arabs from their lands in order to put Jewish people in there.
I cannot defend everything Israel does but the last time I can remember there was a lot of fuzz on HN about evicting Arabs to give land to Israelis it was about giving back land to the families whos property was stolen and given to Arabs in the brief time where Jordan occupied it.
Also remember that there used to be a whole lot of Jews in the lands surrounding Israel. These partially moved voluntarily, partially where driven out harshly.
Meanwhile Arabs got to stay in Israel[2].
In fact more Jews were moved into Israel from surrounding countries than Arabs expelled from Israel so theoretically, if Arabs wanted, they could have given the properties of the Jews that fled from their countries to the Arabs that came from Israel.
That didn't happen as the Arabs never accepted UNs plan. So the neighbouring countries put their relatives in camps while waiting to "shove the Jews into the sea", Israel welcomed their own people and got them integrated with homes and a place to work. As time went by I think it became convenient to keep them there as a chess pawn.
[1]: I consequently use the word Arabs except here. There has never been a country named Palestine, just a Roman administrative province and later a fiction fueled by crafty journalists that saw that the story about small Israel against the Arab world would put Israel in a good light while "big" Israel (it is the size of a small county in Norway) against the poor "Palestinians"[3] in the camps.
[2]: Part of this seems to be a cynical plot by the Israelis. They asked them to stay I understand because if they all left, all the neighbouring countries could just walk in and shoot everything that lived.
[3]: Actually Arabs, just living inside the borders of the small part that UN/UK gave to the Jewish part of the population.
PS: Again, I'm heavily biased. I write to make you see it from my side. I have been caught in factual errors before. When that happen and I can verify it I have apologized and I try to not repeat those mistakes, again unlike mainstream journalists.
> with policies in place to evict Arabs from their lands in order to put Jewish people in there.
I cannot defend everything Israel does but the last time I can remember there was a lot of fuzz on HN about evicting Arabs to give land to Israelis it was about giving back land to the families whos property was stolen and given to Arabs in the brief time where Jordan occupied it.
Also remember that there used to be a whole lot of Jews in the lands surrounding Israel. These partially moved voluntarily, partially where driven out harshly.
Meanwhile Arabs got to stay in Israel[2].
In fact more Jews were moved into Israel from surrounding countries than Arabs expelled from Israel so theoretically, if Arabs wanted, they could have given the properties of the Jews that fled from their countries to the Arabs that came from Israel.
That didn't happen as the Arabs never accepted UNs plan. So the neighbouring countries put their relatives in camps while waiting to "shove the Jews into the sea", Israel welcomed their own people and got them integrated with homes and a place to work. As time went by I think it became convenient to keep them there as a chess pawn.
[1]: I consequently use the word Arabs except here. There has never been a country named Palestine, just a Roman administrative province and later a fiction fueled by crafty journalists that saw that the story about small Israel against the Arab world would put Israel in a good light while "big" Israel (it is the size of a small county in Norway) against the poor "Palestinians"[3] in the camps.
[2]: Part of this seems to be a cynical plot by the Israelis. They asked them to stay I understand because if they all left, all the neighbouring countries could just walk in and shoot everything that lived.
[3]: Actually Arabs, just living inside the borders of the small part that UN/UK gave to the Jewish part of the population.
PS: Again, I'm heavily biased. I write to make you see it from my side. I have been caught in factual errors before. When that happen and I can verify it I have apologized and I try to not repeat those mistakes, again unlike mainstream journalists.