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Originally posted by Xtremely Yummy:
I thought Israel took land from the Palestinians after WW2..
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Not that simple...
There was never a nation called Palestine, only a territory that was previously ruled by the British and before them, Ottoman turks, and before them Arabs, and before them Jews and was called Israel.
There was roughly 55,000 Jews living there at the start of WWII. After the war there was mass emigration of Jews from europe to Palestine. Jews BOUGHT land from Arabs that had been settled there, the "Palestinians".
After a lot of conflict in the area between Jews and Arabs the British drew up territorial agreement giving certain land to Jews and cetain land to Palestinians. This was ratified by the U.N. and Israel became a State in 1948.
The Arabs convinced the Palestinians to leave, because all of the Arab nations were going to attack Israel and take all of the land and give it to the Palestinians. They attacked as soon as Israel officially became a state and to the amazement of the world, they lost. During the first war Israel seized more territory, but so did Jordan and Egypt.
Thus much of the Palestinian's land is now in the hands of Jordan and Egypt. Why don't the Arabs attack them too? I'll tell you why, because they don't give a flying fuck about them. The Palestinians are nothing more than a tool. Practically every Arab country has thrown this lot out. Ah, but the Jews, their mortal enemy must accept them. If the Palestinian's Arab "brothers" cared, Palestinians wouldn't still be in refugee camps in Jordan and Syria, 50 plus years after the first Arab-Israeli war.
Btw, Kuwait threw out 20,000 of them during the Gulf War when AraFART took Sadam's side.