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Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 28 May 2002 16:33:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > This is the part that messes me up, though; aren't there quite a few
> > people now living in that region who were personally subject to relocation?
> > If so, then they would seem to have a legitimate grievance.
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> only relocation by their own choice - AFAIK, Israel never forced anyone to
> leave their houses in '48 (or '67), the people who left did so from their
> own free will.
You're wrong. Read around the subject a little more. As the Israeli forces
advanced they destroyed whole villages in their path. Israel was able to
clear 80% of Palestinians from the area (~700,000 individuals).
> Fearing Israel will do to them what the Arab countries would
> have done to the Jews if the situation was reversed. So the only legitimate
> grievance, as far as I can see, is "I abandoned my home 40 years ago, you
> lived there, developed it, and now I want it back".
Well, I think they wanted to go back a lot sooner than 40 years after the
event. The plight of the refugees was central to Israel’s armistice talks
with Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria in 1949.
Anyhow, where I live one cannot just assume ownership of apparently
abandoned property.
Scott A
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> Dan
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