Garlon3A wrote:
> for more then 50 years the arabs have been spreading the complete lie
that
> israel forced out 800,000 arabs during the 1948 war. the fact is the
arabs
> were told by their leaders to get out of the way so that the arab armies
> could easily destroy the jews and then everyone could come home. the
arabs
> packed their things and moved out of the way, expecting an easy victory
> (since jews cant fight).
>
> another lie, a more im****tant one, is that the arabs have lived in
palestine
> for centuries, even millenia. the fact is that during the ottoman rule,
> palestine was a ****y little country...as described by mark twain.
very
> few arabs lived there. only after the jews started immigrating and
reving
> up the economy did arabs start to immigrate to palestine from other
areas.
> had the jews not moved in, palestine would still only have a few hundred
> thousand arabs today. plus, the jews were the majority in jerusalem as
> early as the 1880's.
>
> the fact is that very few arabs can trace their family back into
palestine
> before the 1900's. most of them came to palestine to profit from the
labor
> of the early zionists. thousands of arabs did live in palestine before
the
> 1880's, but only a few thousand.
>
>
But NONE of the Israelis can trace their families back 2000 ****ing
years ago can they ?
Y.


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