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Gaza-Israel Conflict | October 2023

Could we see Russians deploy Nuclear missiles to Iran, considering what Iran is doing for them, to prevent this crisis from growing bigger?

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations held in Beirut; clashes erupt at protest near US embassy​

 
If losers had a face what would it look like?
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you blame them but not the one who put dumb terms there?
I blame all of them. In 40 years they haven't been able to work out a solution. And the Americans for heavily supporting Israel no matter the atrocities. Even after the Cold War ended. They could have just left the entire West Bank and Gaza and granted them full independence,let them have a corridor managed by the UN and East Jerusalem to be protected by a neutral force,maybe Asians or Palestinian Christians or Muslim peace force on rotation.
 
8th September 1928

let go back more
June 30, 1924 Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi[46] for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders

Aaron David Gordon, whose teachings formed the main intellectual inspiration of the labour leaders, wrote in 1921:

For Eretz Israel, we have a charter that has been valid until now and that will always be valid, and that is the Bible [... including the Gospels and the New Testament ...] It all came from us; it was created among us. ... And what did the Arabs produce in all the years they lived in the country? Such creations, or even the creation of the Bible alone, give us a perpetual right over the land in which we were so creative, especially since the people that came after us did not create such works in this country, or did not create anything at all.[25]
According to Zeev Sternhell, "The founders accepted this point of view. This was the ultimate Zionist argument."

Y. Gorny says leaders from various branches of Zionism claimed such a prevalent right:


  • The cultural Zionist Ahad Ha'am "saw the historical rights of the Jews as outweighing the Arabs' residential rights in Palestine".[26]
  • Theodor Herzl's companion Max Nordau, a political Zionist, declared that Palestine was the "legal and historical inheritance" of the Jewish nation, and that the Palestinian Arabs had only "possession rights".[27]
  • David Ben-Gurion, labour Zionism's most important leader, held that the Jewish people had a superior right to Palestine,[28] that Palestine was important to the Jews as a nation and to the Arabs as individuals, and hence the right of the Jewish people to concentrate in Palestine, a right which was not due to the Arabs.[29]
  • Zeev Jabotinsky, leader of the more radical revisionist Zionists, held that since Palestine was only a very small part of the Land held by the Arab nation, "requisition of an area of land from a nation with large stretches of territory, in order to make a home for a wandering people is an act of justice, and if the land-owning nation does not wish to cede it (and this is completely natural) it must be compelled".[30]

The dissident Zionists in Brit Shalom and Ihud thought differently. Hugo Bergmann wrote in 1929: "our opponents [in mainstream Zionism] hold different views. When they speak of Palestine, of our country, they mean 'our country', that is to say 'not their country' [... this belief is based on the concept that in a State] one people, among the people residing there, should be granted the majority right.",[31] and Ernst Simon held that the historical right "is binding on us rather than on the Arabs" and therefore an agreement with the Arabs is necessary.[32]

According to Anita Shapira, in the early 1940s young Jews came to believe that "[t]he land was theirs, theirs alone. This feeling was accompanied by a fierce sense of possessiveness, of joyous anticipation of the fight for it".[33]
 
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