Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

The most ancient communities of African Jews are the Ethiopian, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews of North Africa and the Horn of Africa.

In the seventh century, many Spanish Jews fled persecution under the Visigoths to North Africa, where they made their homes in the Byzantine-dominated cities along the Mediterranean coast. Others arrived after the expulsion from Iberia. Remnants of longstanding Jewish communities remain in Morocco, Tunisia, and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla. There is a much-diminished but still vibrant community on the island of Djerba in Tunisia. Since 1948 and the civil war to establish Israel, which aroused hostility in Muslim lands, most other North African Jews emigrated to Israel.
In 1975, the Israeli religious authorities and government recognized the Beta Israel of Ethiopia as legally Jewish. Hundreds of persons who wanted to emigrate to Israel were air-lifted under the leadership of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Significant immigration to Israel continues into the 21st century. Begin had obtained an official ruling from the Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi (or Rishon LeTzion) Ovadia Yosef that the Beta Israel were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes. Rabbis believed they were probably descendants of the Tribe of Dan; rabbinical responsa discussing issues related to the people date back hundreds of years.

Unlike the Biblical Account the common ancestors of moden Jews and modern Palestinians were indigenous to modern day Israel.

A UN official has resigned after saying the UN had pressured her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of apartheid over its treatment of Palestinians.

The report was published by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), led by Under Secretary General Rima Khalaf.

She had said it was the first to conclude Israel was a racist state.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had distanced himself from the report, saying it reflected its authors' views.

As of Friday, it was no longer visible on the ESCWA's website.

Speaking in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Ms Khalaf, a Jordanian, said she had submitted her resignation to Mr Guterres after he insisted on the report's withdrawal.

"We expected of course that Israel and its allies would put huge pressure on the secretary general of the UN so that he would disavow the report, and that they would ask him to withdraw it," she was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
Israel has condemned the report. "The attempt to smear and falsely label the only true democracy in the Middle East by creating a false analogy is despicable and constitutes a blatant lie," Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement.

The report itself said it had established on the "basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid".

It was published on Wednesday by the ESCWA, which promotes economic and social development in 18 Arab countries, and is based in Beirut.

In 2014, the then US Secretary of State, John Kerry, warned that Israel risked becoming "an apartheid state" if a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians was not found soon.

A UN official has resigned after saying the UN had pressured her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of apartheid over its treatment of Palestinians.

She's right, though.

Just because you may think Palestinians are bad people, that does not make it right for them to effectively be non-citizens. That is an injustice.

What type of universe are you people living in where it's okay for people to be subjugated just because you think they are at fault.

Israel has the power to do something that Palestinians don't, and that is actually bring the conflict to an end.

I think people make the mistake of viewing this whole messed up situation as a conflict of two sides, two equals, who must BOTH equally compromise.

Where are the two equals? There's Israel, whose government controls what happens to Palestinians, both in legislation and military action, whereas no government controls the Palestinians. There's no central command. Palestinians are literally a bunch of angry people throwing rocks or those with more sophisticated means bombing who they are taught from birth is their enemy. That is Palestine. By definition, Palestinians lack agency, so how are they to take responsibility. This is the crux of the problem. There are people who want to wholly blame a people who have no authority and do not act as a unit for a very complex problem. There's no resolution in sight with that approach. Palestinians are not in a position to compromise. There's no real consensus among them, and any attempts at compromise would be seen as betrayals for this reason.

Israel holds the cards,

and I'd argue the responsibility, to compromise.

It has the opportunity to alleviate the suffering of people who have suffered long enough if it were just to let go of national and racial pride, even just a teensy bit.

When I said compromise, I meant make concessions.

Israel needs to make concessions.

the other stuff isn't worth arguing about to me. We disagree.

Baldimo wants to exterminate all Muslims.