Very cool video regarding Israel's defensible borders and territory negotiations.

[Kev]

Bilbo, let's assume the Israeli propaganda you got from the Jewish Virtual Library is all true and the objective assessments of Jewish and other historians and the actual historical record, the BBC monitoring radio broadcasts etc. is all wrong. Let's say the Arab armies did encourage the Palestinians to leave their homes. So what? Let's say some foreign army invades the south coast and the British government tell people living there to leave their homes as they'll be in the middle of a war zone and in great danger. So you leave your home and head north. After whatever military action is over you still own your home, right? You still own the land and the property. If that's the best excuse the Israelis have for ethnically cleansing a million Palestinians from their homes, mostly rounded up and put on trucks at gunpoint as is endlessly documented even in the memiors of former Israeli prime ministers who took part in the ethnic cleansing, then it's a pretty pathetic excuse, no?

It's the Arab's who invaded the Jews mate that caused the Palestinains to flee not the other round. The Arabs invaded on three different fronts the day after the British mandate expired. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria all went to war with Israel and they told the Palestinians (who were on the Arab side) to get out the way whilst they wiped the Jews out.

Only they didn't, they got their asses kicked utterly by a nation only a day old. They also expelled 800,000 Jews from their own Arab lands. Israel took them in at no cost to the rest of the world whilst the Arabs left the Palestinians to rot so they could continue to use them as a propaganda campaign against Israel.

To continue your analagy further if Britain, or indeed any Western World country had a colony of settlers somewhere and then told them to move aside for a moment whilst we conquer the rest of the land for you, but then got utterly beaten, my guess is they would be legally obligated to take the colonists back and offer them homes seeing as their aggression had lost their's originally.

If they had also expelled 800,000 people who shared ancestory with the side they were fighting, and took billions of pounds worth of property and land in so doing, they would probably use that land, property and money towards rehousing their own colonists and giving them full citizenship rights in their countries, just like Israel did for the 800,00 Arab Jewish refugees the above nations made homeless and destitute.

I guess you'll continue to ignore this point however and not even address it.