11-10-2025, 12:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2025, 12:29 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
Yes. There were jews and muslims and christians and other faiths living peacefully in Palestine for generations, side by side.
And then the Brits came and took possession and control of the place from the Ottomans, and then imposed the State of Israel they created on those lands and invited the world's jewish people to come in and make their homes there. No regard to ethnic links, no reference to cultural heritage, not even any insistence on migrants having a semitic background - which the original and long established population did have. Strangers who just moved in and took over the homes and farms and businesses of the evicted original peoples.
And then, as you can imagine the trouble started.
We are NOT seeing an ethnic cleansing of jews, there are more followers of Judaism living outside Israel - happily, safely, and peacefully - than there are in Israel. That is fact. If any population is being ethnically cleansed it is the semitic people who were evicted from their homes, but who remained in the region, steadfastly hoping they would one day return to the land of their fathers and grandfathers.
Optimistic though that might be.
And then the Brits came and took possession and control of the place from the Ottomans, and then imposed the State of Israel they created on those lands and invited the world's jewish people to come in and make their homes there. No regard to ethnic links, no reference to cultural heritage, not even any insistence on migrants having a semitic background - which the original and long established population did have. Strangers who just moved in and took over the homes and farms and businesses of the evicted original peoples.
And then, as you can imagine the trouble started.
We are NOT seeing an ethnic cleansing of jews, there are more followers of Judaism living outside Israel - happily, safely, and peacefully - than there are in Israel. That is fact. If any population is being ethnically cleansed it is the semitic people who were evicted from their homes, but who remained in the region, steadfastly hoping they would one day return to the land of their fathers and grandfathers.
Optimistic though that might be.