Pinko_Panther Member since Dec 11th 2002 11808 posts
Wed Nov-05-03 01:30 AM
89. "RE: The only place they would have had to" In response to In response to 75
Even the land that they bought, had they bought all the land, wouldn't even support the Zionist argument. This land, which was being lived on and worked by Palestinian Arab peasants, was owned by wealthy notables who lived in Syria at the time. These lands were bought from these Syrian notables by wealthy European zionists who took advantage of Great Depression era misery. The notables in Syria were desperate for income so they sold these lands so that they and their families could survive the Depression. Then once the land was bought under these suspect conditions, do you think that the peasants just packed up and left? No, they weren't even told that the lands that they were living on were sold to people that didn't want them there. Do you think the Zionists wanted to share the land with the peasants who have lived there for hundreds of years? No, because they would not be able to build a state of Jewish character with a Jewish majority unless they relieved the land of its Arab population. Try and guess what happened with these peasants.
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