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dayne · 04-19-2004, 03:22 PM

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Originally posted by mh67511:
<STRONG>We are learing in World Religion class that the Jews were kicked out of Israel around 70 AD I think. And then they came back in 1948 to claim their land. We also learned that the Palestinians rejected a treaty that would have divided the land, around that time, which the Israelis accepted. I don't know much about the issue, but why did the Palestinians reject this treaty??</STRONG>

Because the whole thing involved Palestinians giving up more than half of their land. Nobody wants to give up their land, regardless of whether it's to accomodate people that were also wronged in the past. They had been living there for more than a thousand years. It was their home. So, one can't really fault them for saying no.

I am not at all against Israel. Like any country they have the right to exist and defend themselves against terrorists, but the whole terrible situation can't just be blamed on the Palestinians refusing to sign an agreement.

Plus, there have been a bunch of Jewish Palestinians that had been living in Palestine for a long time (waaay before 1948). The Palestinian Jews, Muslims, and Christians got along alright for a long time. The real problems between the Jews and the Palestinians started when the European Jewish settlers started coming in (i.e. because of the Holocaust, pogroms in Russia, and a desire to live in that area). I guess it could be the settlers' desire to reclaim "their" land and the Palestinians reluctance to make any deal whatsoever that lead to what transpired in 1948.

[ 04-19-2004: Message edited dayne ]