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| quote: | Originally posted by ronk
dude go learn some history before making a fool out of yourself.
the "millions" (there never were "millions") of jews immigrated from europe because they suffered in europe.
at that time (end of 19th century, beginning of 20th century) there was a massive immigration wave from eastern europe to the rest of the world. aprox. 20,000 jews from that 'wave' decided to immigrate to Israel, to settle along side the other jews who lived here.
at that time the Ottoman Empire ruled this region and allowed the immigration of the jews (yet with many prohibitions) like many other countries which allowed immigration. the jewish people who came bought the lands they settled on, and the arabs couldn't care less.
later, before and during ww1, aprox. 10,000 jews immigrated here. after the war, the Ottoman Empire was defeated, so all of its territories were given to Britain and France. so in 1922 the League of Nations passed the Palestine Mandate, which among other things was an obligation to the Balfour Declaration - an establishment of a jewish national home in these lands.
so time goes by...and at some point the british got sick of the problems they've had here (fights between jews and arabs mainly, which most of them the arabs initiated - 1920, 1921, 1929, 1936-1939). so they turn to the UN to decide what to do with this region. the UN decides to end the British mandate, and to divide it into a jewish state and an arab state. the jewish leadership accepted the decision, the arab leadership didn't.
in the end of the last day of the british mandate, Israel declared its independence. then, the arabs decided to strike the jewish state (Israel), with help from other countries (Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon etc.)
the war ends, we win, and the borders of that same jewish state (called Israel) were expanded.
later there were some other wars between Israel and the arabs, so the Israeli borders expanded some more after each war.
and by the way, there was no 'country' prior to the state of Israel in this exact region (the Ottomans ruled it, but it was a part of their empire). |
wow um. man.. that's your very skewed take on history man.. clearly you've omitted topics such as jewish extremist terrorism.. and other very very very very very very important issues and events which occurred in this time period. I don't even know what to say.. there are entire books written on this period (such as http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/01...1376600?ie=UTF8) I really am not surprised at your account however. You are allowed to give it. I'm just here to warn people that your account isn't exactly the most objective. I'm not going to try correcting your statements and filling the gaps as it's close to impossible. So, for those of you out there interested in the conflict, please do your own research of events which occurred.
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But yeah, i think all major points have been hit in this thread more or less, now its a matter of seeing how the conflict develops i think.
