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Where's the Coverage? Jews Are the Indigenous People of Israel

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Buck2/03/2013 12:13:51 pm PST

re: #43 Red Falcons of America

Yeah, I doubt the ultra-conservative defenders of Israel support the idea that Canada should cease to exist and in it’s place should be re-established Iroquois Confederacy.

However if this were the time that the colonizers were coming to North America and asking the world to call this land their own, and ignore the indigenous people you would support the indigenous people.

Oh, unless those indigenous people were Jews. Then you would distort the history in order to invalidate them.

In the late 1880s, there were fewer than 350,000 Arabs living in the entire region called Palestine, which then included the area now called Jordan. That area was what had the highest Arab Palestinians population AND WAS GIVEN to the Arab Palestinians as an Arab Palestinian State. Arabs from all over immigrated en masse to the desolate region to take advantage of the economic development created by the Zionists. Arafat’s family was Egyptian. In fact Arabs constituted 37 percent of the total immigration to pre-state Israel.

In War on Musics world, the descendants of Arabs who immigrated in pursuit of jobs and economic opportunity are the “indigenous” people while the Jews that lived there for a thousand years and the descendants of Jewish immigrants who fled discrimination, violence, and genocide are the “colonizers.”

That is not a legitimate criticism of Israel policy. It is a version of revisionist history that is designed to make Jews illegal on supposed Arab land.

If it is all Arab land, the logic goes, then Jews are illegal in all of Palestine.

That is racism, that is antisemitism. Straight up.