The real issue here, was the creation of Israel, which displaced the Palestinians.
Check your facts. I would have thought better of you. Many "Palestinian Refugees" who were "displaced" went back to the countries they came from - Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, etc by choice after 1948...
What this allowed was a lot of non-Middle Eastern Jews to move to the area, but displaced the Arabs who had been living there for nearly 2,000 years.
Islam hasn't even been around for 2000 years. Maybe Mustarabim you meant? Muslim Arabs in Israel, less than 1400 years ago. Next time you throw numbers with a 25% margin of error, check the facts first. Nearly 2000 years ago Israel was ruled by Israelite (Jewish) Kings appointed by the Romans.
Still during the bulk of the "2000" years you speak about the land was barren, and the population was scarce. Mark Twain visited Jerusalem in 1867 and wrote in his memoirs about his visit to the "holy land":
“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”
When the British controlled the land, the local economy grew, and when Jews started to come back to Israel in the late 1800's/early 1900's with European money, the economy grew further until Palestine had higher per capital income than Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq by the 1930's. And when the Arabs in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq realized that they can make more money in British controlled Palestine, they came for money.
The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931 :: Middle East Quarterly
"Two events distinguished the early years of twentieth-century Palestine from its Middle Eastern neighbors: 1) the immigration into Palestine of European Jews, accompanied by European capital and European technology, and 2) the creation of the British Mandatory Government in Palestine whose responsibilities included the economic development of Palestine. As a result of the mandate conferred by the League of Nations, British capital and British technology followed the British flag. These two events generated a momentum of economic activity that produced in Palestine a standard of living previously unknown in the Middle East"
The "Palestinians have roots in the land" argument is pure BS. Many of them came
after Jews returned from the corners of the world.
Hamas is a recent organization, how do you guys rationalize abusing the Palestinians for 45 years?
Its called self-defense. Unfortunately the persistence of the Jewish people gets tried in almost every generation, this time its by people who want to kill me and my family because we are Jews (or is that every time). So instead I decided to arm myself with a Desert Eagle since I would like to be a grandfather some day. You catch my drift? Probably not....So
If you want to play chicken and the egg, than lets go back to BEFORE Jews had guns. Lets go back to when the British had the guns, and the Jews were still nobodies, years before they were slaughtered by the millions...
1929
Arabs Massacre Jews in Hebron -
1929 Hebron massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arabs Massacre Jews in Safed -
1929 Safed pogrom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All because Jews came into Palestine LEGALLY and purchased land of Arabs LEGALLY. And lets not even begin about the Jewish claim to the land.............
""Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store."
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Charles Krauthammer –
The Weekly Standard,
May 11, 1998