You are out of your goddamn mind if you think the Bible, which has (or should have) no bearing on anything regarding the Palestinian situation, is legitimate justification for what happened to the Palestinian Arabs. Furthermore, you're even more misinformed (I'm trying to be nice here) if you think that the other Arab nation opening their borders and accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees is an acceptable or realistic solution to the problem for anyone, including the Palestinians.
I'm just going to address that last point, because your claim about Biblical justification is so outlandish that I can't believe you, someone whose intelligence and perspective I normally respect and appreciate, actually believe it. By extension, I assume you'd be fine with all manner of fucked up persecutions and laws because they are authorize by a book which was composed under dubious circumstances thousands of years ago.
First, the Palestinians don't want to be incorporated into Egypt, Syria, Iran etc. and they should not be forced to. They want the homeland that they, fairly justifiably, feel was robbed from them and is now controlled by an extremely repressive and fundamentally racist group of colonizers. That is not a practical solution, obviously, but to expect them to just lay down and accept their fate is ludicrous. Secondly, no neigboring Arab nation would ever just accept that many Palestinian refugees, with their own political agenda's and power-structures into their country; just look what happened to Jordan in the 1980s. The problem with the Palestinian - Isaeli conflict (according to myself and others much smarter than I) is that there is no readily available solution to the problem. The entire situation is a goddamn mess and it has been since the First World War. A two-state solution is the only hope for peace, but even then it is extremely doubtful that the two sides could come to any agreement, especially with Israel (largely as a result of the U.S.) holding the majority of the power.
Sorry if this came across as harsh, as I'm sure it did, but I honestly could not be more fundamentally opposed to your perspective on this manner. I tried to avoid replying, but I could not help myself.
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