format_quote Originally Posted by August
No one kicked them out. They decided, with quite obvious good reason, that it wasn't safe for them to be a minority everywhere, so they started moving to Israel and formed the country we know today. Remember, there was no Palestinian state before Israel was formed, Palestine was a possesion of the British Empire. The creation of Israel was initially peacefull, it was Arab nations that started all of the wars.
It is apparent that you have no expertise when it comes to the history of Israel. Instead of listing all your logical fallacies, I will attempt to correct your factual inaccuracies.
1.) During 1915-16, as World War I was underway, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, secretly corresponded with Husayn ibn `Ali, the patriarch of the Hashemite family and Ottoman governor of Mecca and Medina. McMahon convinced Husayn to lead an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was aligned with Germany against Britain and France in the war. McMahon promised that if the Arabs supported Britain in the war, the British government would support the establishment of an independent Arab state under Hashemite rule in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine. The Arab revolt, led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Husayn's son Faysal, was successful in defeating the Ottomans, and Britain took control over much of this area during World War I.
2.) You also claim that Israeli was initially acquired peacefully. I invite you to return to reality. The war began because Israel made a PRE-EMPTIVE attack on Egypt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/2654251.stm
It is interestesting to note that Israel broke her promise by this pre-emtive attack. Prime Minister Golda Meir promised Kenneth Keating that Israel wanted to "avoid" bloodshed.
The state of Israel was built on lies, and as Christopher Hitches said, is a epitome of modern imperialism. What followed the were decades of Zionist terrorism, expulsion of Palestinians Arabs from their homeland, massacres, erasing of Arab towns and villages, desecration of Muslim and Christian holy places, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and formation of over 4 million refugees.