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[boncer34]

No, it's a people with deep roots in a place getting driven off their land at gunpoint and onlookers wondering why they feel so strongly about it.

That isn't to deny the strong Jewish connection to the region and to Jerusalem in particular but discussion of the present situation is pointless without acknowledgement that almost all of what is now Israel had an Arab population for centuries until the Nakba.

Also equally pointless without acknowledging that almost all of Israel has had much more than an Arab population for centuries.

The "native population" is not inherently Arab, Jewish or anything else. Who was there first and who deserves the land very much depends on who you ask.

 

[Vander18]

No, it's a people with deep roots in a place getting driven off their land at gunpoint and onlookers wondering why they feel so strongly about it.

Sounds a bit like how Jews were tossed out of the Arab countries they lived in for generations.

 

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[faible]

No, it's a people with deep roots in a place getting driven off their land at gunpoint and onlookers wondering why they feel so strongly about it.

That isn't to deny the strong Jewish connection to the region and to Jerusalem in particular but discussion of the present situation is pointless without acknowledgement that almost all of what is now Israel had an Arab population for centuries until the Nakba.

I suspect a not insignificant portion of people were Jewish, Christian and Islamic going back through their family history without ever really leaving the lands. Probably going back to the Canaanites.

 

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