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Dr Steven Weiss's avatar

Excellent essay, however you should have addressed the Arab High Committee’s 1937 statement that “ The Zionists invented Palestine “ for their own benefit. It was the Roman Empire that coined the name Syria - Palestina to erase Jewish identity to the land. Zionists have always called it Eretz Yisrael.

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Bless America's avatar

Arabs lost all the wars and still cry " Palestine ". " Palestine " ceased to exist in 1947. Golda Meir was Palestinian then still.

The winners of World Wars divided their conquered territories, like everyone else, and assigned kings and rulers, sometimes quite ignorantly, but they did their job. .Nations were born and everyone moved on.

The " West Bank" Arabs refused a state, as their Arab warlords demanded. The WB became Jordan. Gaza became Egypt.

Now, it is all Israel. History works like that. End of story.

The Soviets created chaos and terror against the West. Israel was a way to infiltrate and damage, continuing into the Middle East which the Soviets wanted to dominate.

The Arabs have not yet accepted defeat. It's been too many centuries. It's a primitive desert honour tradition and a Quranic commandment. They have created, together with other communist descendants and idiotic empty-brained losers " The Age of Chaos". This is where we are now.

I do trust force and grass roots regenerative initiatives. But today internet is king .It has supplanted minds and keeps leeching people's

intelligence. We must wage war there.

In the meantime, I recommend the movie

" Idiocracy", a most revelatory, very funny, second rate movie, that tells one truth after another.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

I have always regarded Israel as a sovereign state. Its existence goes back 3,000 years. It belongs to the Jewish people.

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Rachel wahba's avatar

It was created by Arab states with Soviet help to destroy a jewish country “ in their midst” — under islam jews are to be subjugated never sovereign

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The Truth Hurts's avatar

The biggest load of shit ever is palestine. It doesn’t even warrant capitalizing.

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Barry's avatar

Dan Burmawi in his recent book "Islam Israel and the West" addresses this issue with quite a few references to primary sources - such as letters and reports - that discuss migration of Arabs into Ottoman-Roman Palestine in both the 1800s and early 1900s. I didn't see these referenced in your article. The text with end-notes can be found in Dan's chapter 2, The Islamic War on Israel.

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Margaret's avatar

I supported a Palestine State but they didn't actually create one did they? In fact they sabotaged nationhood at every turn. Nothing in the Palestinian discourse supports peace and development. The objective is destruction not creation. So it seems to me. No Israeli overtures are good enough. They leave Gaza then Hamas sabotages the territory, not just Hamas but also Arab allies, Iran, Turkey, all complicit in Oct 7th. Even the UN and democratic leadership . They saved Sinwar's life with brain surgery and released him. He formulated the Oct 7th massacre.

You're occupiers right, so you may as well show them what occupation really looks like.

But it's a precarious spot.

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