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Tallpine

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Re: doing the right thing but too late
« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2008, 02:40:27 PM »
My understanding of history is that all the native non-jewish "Palestinians" were offered full citizenship in the new Israeli state, and that some or at least one became MPs.
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Re: doing the right thing but too late
« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2008, 03:08:52 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on March 07, 2008, 01:40:27 PM
My understanding of history is that all the native non-jewish "Palestinians" were offered full citizenship in the new Israeli state, and that some or at least one became MPs.

Not true.

If that had been done, it wouldn't be a Jewish state, because something like 70 percent of the population wasn't Jewish at the time of independence.  The idea was to carefully draw the borders so that a Jewish majority would be guaranteed; even then, they still ended up with 20 percent non Jewish.
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Re: doing the right thing but too late
« Reply #27 on: March 07, 2008, 03:28:52 PM »
Unless someone has evidence that Corrie and the PLO were playing with kids in an inappropriate manner, I think the thread may have drifted a wee bit....
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