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- Cactus0
oh and cactus - I'm starting a PhD in a few months and I have been on a crusade to minimise my use of academic language - so i'm not picking on you - I just think you might have something interesting to say if you got to the point :)
lowimpakt
(Aug 16 06, 06:20)I don't think I use used that much jargon.
Perhaps translating French reasoning made it seem that way. We use a lot of process (too much sometimes) and logic when grappling with abstract ideas. I also detest post-mdern jargon; BTW.
Antway, good luck with your PhD.
- Balance0
btw a "terrorist" is someone who intentionally kills the innocent to scare and terror the people. Call them what they are. Don't try and show us all how "balanced" you are by being PC. We all know who the terrorists are and we can all see the difference between a terrorist group and the US or UK. Trying to compare them is ludicrous and we all know it.
- TheBlueOne0
Interesting analysis from an ex-DoD terrorist analysis dude:
- rylamar0
Where would the 7 million Jews go?
garett_west
(Aug 15 06, 14:39)there are 6,000,000 jews in Israel
laurus
(Aug 15 06, 15:14)So in that 40 minutes between posts I guess the rest of the Middle East just got rid of 1 million Jews?
Give the Mid East till midnight...
- Balance0
Out of sight out of mind
- pavlovs_dog0
you are boring and stupid.
- Balance0
//I cannot imagine anyone wants to forget how the media is feeding its brainwashed propaganda.
- mrdobolina0
please elaborate.
- Nairn0
Do you not have real people to discuss this with, in person, 'Balance'?
- Balance0
Try not to avoid the topic. I know you hate the topic and want to defend the media but the media has always been the devil.
- lowimpakt0
yawn
- kezza_20
seriously how old are you?
you remind me of this sketch
- Nairn0
Try not to avoid the topic - do you have any friends that you can disuss this with? Any friends at all? Is there anyone out there in the real world that doesn't want to avoid you? Hmm?
You're boring. You make me loathe coming to NT.
- Balance0
*bump
- lowimpakt0
*yawn
- parseInteger0
Get back to the real!
Competing Versions of History:
The Israeli version of history, deeply embedded in Zionist ideology, is starkly different from that of the Palestinians. Most Israelis blame the Arab states for creating the refugee problem by refusing to accept the UN partition of Palestine in 1947, declaring war on Israel, and urging the Palestinian population to leave until the Arab armies had defeated the Zionists. Few Israelis would agree with the Palestinian view that Israel itself was responsible for “ethnic cleansing,” and that in rescuing themselves from the tragedy of the Jewish holocaust they, in turn, created another tragedy of loss and exile for Palestinians.
The Palestinian version of history is now being confirmed by a new generation of Israeli historians. They argue that, although there may not have been a coordinated strategy to “transfer” the whole Palestinian population, Israel’s founding fathers recognized that a large Arab population could threaten the Jewish character of the emerging state. Then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his contemporaries used specific acts or threats of force to terrorize Palestinians into evacuating their homes in large numbers. The outstanding instance of such use of force was the massacre of over 100 Palestinian civilians at the village of Deir Yassin on 9 April 1948, conducted by fighters of two irregular Jewish forces, the Irgun and Stern Gang.
Property Expropriation:
While the Israeli and Palestinian versions of history remain at odds with each other, there is no ambiguity about the massive forced transfer of property from Palestinian to Israeli hands. When Israel was established in 1948, Jews controlled only eight percent of the land; the British government held an additional six or seven percent.
Today the situation is nearly reversed, with 93 percent of the land in Israel being held by Israeli Jews. Much was seized from Palestinian refugees now living outside of Israel, as well as from some 230,000 Palestinian Israeli citizens remaining inside. Jewish immigrants quickly settled on the refugees’ land, sometimes occupying their homes, sometimes erecting new towns near bulldozed Palestinian villages. Additionally, some 97 percent of the West Bank and 40 percent of Gaza are physically controlled by the Israeli military.
