re: #46 000G

Your question is nonsensical as to the point I was making: Of course Israel came to exist by war. It was inevitable, just as it was in the case of the USA. Whether those two wars are comparable beyond that is completely besides the point. But we know that to be your M.O.

And you keep repeating a false history.

If it is so obvious, then please tell me which war? What day pre- May 14, 1948 did that war start?

I maintain that some arabs left because they were ordered to and were deliberately incited into panic by their own leaders who wanted the field cleared for a war they knew they were going to start.

You can believe the Palestinian myth that they were evicted at bayonet-point and by panic deliberately incited by the Zionists.

In fact, the new Jewish state immediately recognized the Arab population as an official ethnic and religious minority. The Jewish leadership had made detailed plans for the establishment of an Arabic-language press, the improvement of health in the Arab sector, the incorporation of Arab officials in the government, and the integration of Arabs within the police and the ministry of education. In 1947, David Ben-Gurion, who would soon become prime minister, told his Labor Party, “In our state there will be non-Jews as well — and all of them will be equal citizens; equal in everything without any exception; that is: the state will be their state as well.” Today — unique to Israel and in contrast to the most advanced democracies — the Jewish state gives the languages and religions of its various minorities official status. Thus, Arabic is an official language alongside Hebrew, and Muslim and Christian holidays are considered official holidays.