Palestine was named such by the Romans…if you’re talking about before the Roman occupation there was no ‘ Palestine ‘ per say…
but there was no ‘ Australia ‘ before ‘ Australia either…it was occupied by ‘ aboriginals ‘…same with North America…
the Arabs that live in Palestine have been there as far back as when it was called Canaan ( in fact some believe they are the descendants of the Philistines, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites )…
when I talk about land ownership ( and I am speaking of only me ) I am not specifically referring to a ‘ Nation ‘ but primary occupation…the fact is the Palestinians, even though they have been invaded many many times, have always been the primary occupants…
eg. even the British surveys showed the population of Jews in the area to be minimal ( as low as 6% of the population ) during the Zionist movement.
As far as ‘ stolen ‘ read this:
there is no other word to describe the systematic displacement of the people who lived there to accommodate the Zionist movement for a homeland.
In effect they displaced one people to give a homeland to a displaced people…committed an injustice to one group to satisfy the needs of another.
I am not opposed to a State of Israel…there is no doubt that the Jews needed a homeland…and Palestine was picked because of Judeo-Christian sympathies…
what I am opposed to is the injustice, and the continuing injustice, committed against the natural inhabitants of the area just to accommodate the fulfillment of a biblical ‘ religious ‘ right to ‘ the promise land ‘.
As far as I am concerned to take land away from the Palestinians to give it to the Jews because of some ‘ religious expectation of a right to the promised land ‘ borders upon insanity.
To displace one people in order to fulfill a ‘ religious objective ‘ …to take land from one people and give it to another because the ‘ bible ‘ said it was theirs…
is absurd.
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