History of the West Bank & Israeli Settlements, Part 3 of 4

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Following the Obama Administration's criticism of Israeli West Bank settlements, Shalom TV offers a summary of the history of West Bank sovereignty from 1920 to the present and the legal issues relating to Israeli settlements.

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[Pledgeist]

@BroadwayRonMexico i agree,israel the partition plan was not accepted by the arabs,but still it was applied & imposed on them,arabs have the right to have a voice on the destiny of a land in witch they lived in for centuries.but still their voice was ignored & replaced by others who never lived in palestine & the land got offered to European migrants,& the result is refugees,settlements,occupied territory,,,now i understand people do not like wars,but what can be expected as a reaction ?

[Thunkful2]

Settle in your land, Israel. You don't need any permission from the world or the gentile nations.

[Thunkful2]

Mass forcible deportation of the Moslems a few miles to the East of Jordan would be a very sensible solution. The Moslems have plenty of territory from Algeria to Indonesia. They would do well to live in that territory & stop coveting the postage stamp of Israel.

[Thunkful2]

All this WEST BANK stuff is baloney. You are talking about tribes of Israel, like Judah, Ephraim, & Manasseh. A bank is a narrow strip of land along side a river or lake. U are not talking about that, but territory leading 1/2 way to Mediterranean Sea. Carter = baloney. The Bible is the only authority over who owns Eretz Israel. Convention/shmension.

[BroadwayRonMexico]

@Pledgeist

tl;dr version: The Palestinians had no national identity and barely even existed in terms of population before the British mandate and the beginning of Jewish immigration. Aside from a few big-name families there, they had NOT lived there for centuries and were mainly immigrants from Syria and Yemen in the early 20th century.

And Palestine has refused every proposal for statehood thus far, and as such, has no legally defined or universally-recognized borders.

[BroadwayRonMexico]

@Pledgeist After West Palestine was handed over to the United Nations, the UN decided to partition it yet again into Arab and Jewish states. Israel accepted the terms and was established, while the Palestinians refused and called in other Arab states to destroy Israel. Jordan occupied the West Bank, and Egypt occupied Gaza. Israel pushed them out and made another concession for Palestinian statehood, which the Palestinians refused.

[BroadwayRonMexico]

@Pledgeist Then in the 40s, it was partitioned into East and West Palestine (modern-day Jordan and Israel/Palestine, respectively) to address ethnoreligious conflicts in the territory (as many Arabs from other countries in the Middle East had moved there since it become more developed as a result of European Jewish immigration), with Transjordan being an exclusively Arab state, while West Palestine remained open for Jewish immigration.

[BroadwayRonMexico]

@Pledgeist The entire Mandate of Palestine (containing Israel, Palestine and Jordan) had a population of only 1,000,000 at the time it was mandated to Britain, and 10% of it was Jewish, and many of the Arabs were nomadic. The terms of the mandate guaranteed the right for Jews to immigrate there as a way to address the long standing "Jewish Question", and was considered a good option as it was nearly uninhabited at the time and had a historical precedent with the Jewish people.

[Pledgeist]

Israel is a state that was offered by the west and the British occupying forces to the Zionists , while the most of the 600000 Jews who were there at? the time were migrants , and although the Arabs did not accept the partition plan , theirs was a voice in the wildenes , the voice of the people who lived there for? centuries was ignored , israel was imposed on the palestenians and the neighbering countries ,,,, for me , this is a war decleration , this is the root cause of the problem

[SmartGuy4today]

BTW, according to Jewish law, if you are wife is Jewish, your child is not half Jewish, but fully Jewish.

"I take issue with Israels policies, but do not wish her harm."

Removing a state that is illegitimate is not harming it, because it never was legitimate. You must mean the citizens of Israel and in that case I can argue for the same.

"So you are on your own there buddy."

You don't have a choice in the matter. You will obey me.