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

 
 
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Thu 16 Feb, 2023 03:35 pm
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:

It is true that the Bible talks of the West Bank area as being their homeland. But their claim is based on the actual fact that it is their homeland rather than the fact that this is mentioned in the Bible.

What makes their claim factual, exactly?
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 17 Feb, 2023 02:42 am
@InfraBlue,
PoliteMight wrote:
After WWII Europe ( who was obviously pro Christian ) dumped refugees ( Jews ) into Israel ( the six day war ). Even many "Russians" ( Eastern Europeans ) fled into Israel.

The Israeli Jews were not "dumped" anywhere. They chose to go to Israel because they are the indigenous people of Israel.


PoliteMight wrote:
Thus began the mass genocide and extermination of Islamic and Arab people from the land known as Palestine.

No such genocide or extermination has happened. Palestinians are merely being prevented from murdering innocent people.


PoliteMight wrote:
Even during the six-day-war UN troops ( Israel backed by foreign powers ) attacked an allied US boat just for the fun of it.

Israel is backed by the United States. The attack on the ship was friendly fire.


PoliteMight wrote:
Even took a chunk of Egypt and another nation in which Egypt had to reclaim it's boarders.

Egypt is not able to reclaim anything. They were given the land back in exchange for making peace with Israel.

Had Egypt refused to make peace like the Palestinians refuse to make peace, Egypt would not be in possession of the Sinai Peninsula.


PoliteMight wrote:
This crap continues even into today. They just keep finding more messed up ways to make "excuse" to kill innocent people, and make it seems like if "they are the victims".

The only people who do this are the Palestinians.


PoliteMight wrote:
Post COVID when IDF start evicting people, and pushing them into ghettos ( a place where nobody wants to be or belongs or is up for destruction ) then your being no different then Nazi's.

Falsely accusing Jews of being like Nazis is antisemitism of the worst sort.


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izzythepush wrote:
You must admit that none of them have been found up Oralloy's bottom, and that's his only source of information.

You literally never stop lying about people. I always provide reputable cites upon request.


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InfraBlue wrote:
Yes they have.

I'm hearing a lot of talk. But I'm not seeing any actual evidence of these supposed concentration camps.


InfraBlue wrote:
What makes their claim factual, exactly?

The existence of the Israelite kingdoms is well-attested-to by both history and archaeology.

The Omride dynasty was pretty powerful and dominated the region in the ninth century BC. There is no question that they and their kingdom existed.

There is archaeological evidence of a cohesive society in the tenth century BC as well. And the Egyptians left records of a large military raid against that society. The Bible claims that this military raid was an attack against David and Solomon's state after Solomon's death. Some historians and archaeologists believe that this was King Saul's polity being toppled and that David was merely a minor chieftain. I personally don't see how it matters. The polity clearly existed either way. And it was significant enough for an Egyptian pharaoh to go to war against it.

Egyptian records also note the existence of the Israelite people as far back as the twelfth century BC. And there is archaeological evidence of settlements in the West Bank area as early as the twelfth century BC. Archaeologists say that these people were not displaced, and their descendants eventually became the Israelite kingdoms of later centuries. Interestingly, the Bible describes Shiloh as being a religious center at this time, and the place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, but Shiloh disappears from the Biblical narrative pretty quickly. Archaeology shows that Shiloh was a significant site at this time, but not a regular city with a normal population, and that it was destroyed in the eleventh century BC.

Egyptian records also note the existence of the Hebrew deity somewhere in the land of the Bedouin nomads as far back as the fourteenth century BC.
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Fri 17 Feb, 2023 10:48 pm
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:

InfraBlue wrote:
Yes they have.

I'm hearing a lot of talk. But I'm not seeing any actual evidence of these supposed concentration camps.

The evidence is in this map of the West Bank
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Occupied_Palestinian_Territories.jpg
The Palestinians are largely contained in Areas A and B of the Occupied Territories.

This documentary was filmed by Rona Segal. She learned filmmaking during her service in the IDF.

In Hebron the largest city in the West Bank, in Area A of the Ocuppied Palestinian Territories, the IDF maintains segregated areas where only Jews are allowed and Palestinians are excluded. In the areas where Palestinians are allowed they're continually persecuted by the IDF; everyone is stopped and searched. IDF soldiers invade Palestinian houses to access rooftops. Roadblocks are randomly set up where they search every Palestinian passing through in order to instill a sense of persecution as Nadav Bigelman, an IDF veteran who served in the IDF's 50th Battalion describes in the documentary. Palestinians, some as young as 10 years old are arrested randomly because, as Bigelman explains it, "every Palestinian is a suspect." Palestinians demonstrating against the persecution are shot with rubber bullets. Palestinians are moved out of the way when the Jewish settlers in Hebron organize processions through the Palestinian areas to manifest to the Palestinians their superior status in the city. Abuse of Palestinians by the Jewish settlers is ignored by the IDF and Israeli police. Palestinians are being cleared from areas of Hebron to make way for Jewish settlements.

oralloy wrote:

InfraBlue wrote:
What makes their claim factual, exactly?

The existence of the Israelite kingdoms. . .

The Omride dynasty. . .

There is archaeological evidence. . .

Egyptian records. . .

You're confusing Israelites with Israelis.
oralloy
 
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2023 01:26 am
@InfraBlue,
Showing where Palestinians are located does not mean that they are being held in concentration camps.

The security measures in Hebron that you illustrated are unfortunately necessary in order to prevent Palestinians from murdering local settlers.

Had the Palestinians ever made peace with Israel, the Hebron area would have gone to the Palestinians, and the local settlers would have been withdrawn.

DNA shows that Israeli Jews come from the same Canaanite ancestry that the Palestinians do. This is evidence that Israeli Jews are descended from the Israelites.
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2023 12:56 pm
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
Showing where Palestinians are located does not mean that they are being held in concentration camps.

The map alone does not does not mean that they are being held in concentration camps; however it illustrates the areas where their oppression and containment is occurring.

oralloy wrote:
The security measures in Hebron that you illustrated are unfortunately necessary in order to prevent Palestinians from murdering local settlers.

The security measures taken by the Zionists are oppressive and persecutional.

oralloy wrote:
Had the Palestinians ever made peace with Israel, the Hebron area would have gone to the Palestinians, and the local settlers would have been withdrawn.

"Making peace with Israel" means ceding to the Zionists' terms and renouncing the Palestinians Right of Return.

oralloy wrote:
DNA shows that Israeli Jews come from the same Canaanite ancestry that the Palestinians do. This is evidence that Israeli Jews are descended from the Israelites.

Israeli Jews demonstrate a wide range of genealogical ancestry. DNA genealogy shows that Ashkenazi Jews have a largely Southern European admixture. Mizrahi Jews have more Western Asian genetic admixtures. Beta Israel and Abayudaya Jews have Central East African genetic admixtures. Cochin Jews have largely Indian genetic admixtures. Igbo Jews have West African genetic admixtures.
oralloy
 
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2023 04:03 pm
@InfraBlue,
Correct that making peace with Israel does mean letting Israel keep some of the land to exist on.

As I recall, you consider Israel's existence as a Jewish state to be oppressive, and the only way to end that oppression is to end Israel as a Jewish state. With that definition of oppression, I have no objections to Israel being oppressive.

While the various Jewish groups do have some DNA from the local areas that they recently lived in, they also have genetic history linking them to the same Bronze Age Canaanite population that the Palestinians come from.
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Wilso
 
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2023 06:46 pm
I’ve probably posted this before, but the IDF is the world’s best funded terrorist organisation.
oralloy
 
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2023 06:57 pm
@Wilso,
Your neonazism is shameful. Shame on you for falsely accusing the IDF of imaginary atrocities.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 19 Feb, 2023 12:29 am
@oralloy,
Your neonazism however, is spot on.

Hitler would be proud.
oralloy
 
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Reply Sun 19 Feb, 2023 12:34 am
@izzythepush,
No neonazism on my end. I never falsely accuse Jews of imaginary atrocities.
MontereyJack
 
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Reply Fri 24 Feb, 2023 11:22 am
@oralloy,
Really? You are however very free about charging "progressives" and Democrats with inaginary atrocities.






oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 24 Feb, 2023 06:26 pm
@MontereyJack,
I do no such thing. All of my accusations against progressives are true and can be backed up with reputable links.

They are off topic on this thread however.
MontereyJack
 
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Reply Fri 24 Feb, 2023 08:55 pm
@oralloy,
wrong. they are only in yur mind. the real arocities are conservative stock in trade
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 24 Feb, 2023 10:04 pm
@MontereyJack,
Off topic in this thread.
MontereyJack
 
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Reply Sat 25 Feb, 2023 09:22 am
@oralloy,
Tough
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 5 Mar, 2023 03:03 am
This is really big, for years these people have turned a blind eye to Israel's persecution of the Palestinian people and attempted to smear all criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Now Netanyahu's government is so extreme, that even pro Israel Zionists are forced to speak out.

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British Jews must speak out over the “complete disintegration of the political and social compact” that underpins the state of Israel, the historian Simon Schama has said.

His call comes amid mounting disquiet among Jews in the UK and the US at the threats to Israeli democracy, violent attacks on Palestinians and a police crackdown on Israeli protesters.

Next Sunday, Israelis living in the UK will take to the streets to voice their opposition to the actions of the most rightwing Israeli government in the country’s 75-year history.

Protests are also planned by expat Israelis and Jews in other countries in solidarity with huge demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem against the government.

In a sign of the changing mood, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, considered to be a conservative and staunchly pro-Israel body, issued a rare statement condemning a call by a senior Israeli minister that a Palestinian town in the West Bank should be “wiped out” in response to the murder of two Israelis.

“We utterly condemn Bezalel Smotrich’s comments calling for the Israeli government to ‘erase’ a village which days ago was attacked by Israeli settlers. We hope that this and similar comments will be publicly repudiated by responsible voices in the governing coalition,” the board said.

The board’s statement was a reflection that British Jews across the political spectrum are deeply troubled by “dangerous extremists” in the Israeli government, said one insider.

Speaking to the Observer, Schama said that Israel was at risk of becoming a “nationalist theocracy” with the inclusion of ultra-religious, far-right parties in the coalition government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Key government posts have been handed to extreme hardliners Itamar Ben-Gvir and Smotrich – both ideological settlers committed to Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

The government has begun moves to undermine judicial independence and expand Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

The army has failed to contain a surge of settler violence, and the police last week fired stun grenades and water cannon at peaceful protesters in Tel Aviv.

“This is of concern to Jewry all over the world,” said Schama. “It’s absolutely, utterly horrifying.” Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence – “a noble document, which promised equal civil rights to all religious and ethnic groups” – had disintegrated, he said.

Jews must speak out, he added. To do so was “not a betrayal of Israel, it’s a passionate declaration of support for the enormous number of people [in Israel] who feel as anguished as we do. We should not be lily-livered about it”.

Margaret Hodge, the veteran Labour MP and parliamentary chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said an “assault on democracy” combined with “vicious attacks on Palestinian rights” was creating a “dangerous moment” for Israel.

She had always been a “critical friend” of Israel, but said she and other British Jews must now be “more vocal. The voice of the Jewish diaspora must be stronger, we must exert what pressure we can to curtail the excesses of the Israeli government.”

Anthony Julius, one of the UK’s most prominent Jewish lawyers, said the Israeli government incorporated “the worst features of the populist, anti-liberal democratic parties that operate in Europe and in America as well, but with a special kind of antinomian Jewish intensity”.

Sweeping reforms to give the government total control over the appointment of judges and to allow parliament to override supreme court rulings were “destructive”, he said in Haaretz newspaper last month.

According to Rabbi Jonathan Romain, the “vast majority” of his congregation in Maidenhead, Berkshire, was “deeply worried” about what’s happening in Israel. “The extremist faction in the government is anti-gay, anti-women, anti-civil liberties, anti-pluralism, hostile to Palestinians,” Romain said.

“The mood is shifting from British Jews being out-and-out supporters [of Israel] to being critical friends – and voicing that criticism publicly.” His constituents were “more worried about the direction of Israel than at any time previously”, he said.

Next weekend’s protest, under the banner “Defend Israel’s democracy”, is open to all expat Israelis “and all supporters of Israel and democracy”, the organisers said.

Reuven Ziegler, a law professor at Reading University, who will be speaking at the protest, said: “The demonstrations are a very patriotic act because they are an attempt to save Israel from making substantive mistakes that would ultimately change its character. They are anything but hostile to the Israeli state.

“Since this government was formed, it has given many reasons for people in the diaspora to find themselves alienated from it.

“In the past, faced with certain expressions of antisemitism, many Jews have felt the need to defend Israel, right or wrong. That sentiment may be weakening, but ultimately the blame for that lies squarely with the current government.”

Hannah Weisfeld, the director of Yachad, a UK organisation that advocates for a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said: “There is real disquiet in the community over Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. The settler attack on Hawara was quite a gamechanger.”

People, she said, were starting to understand there was “a connection between the undoing of democracy and settlers running wild in the West Bank.

“It’s very painful for British Jews, particularly those from an old-school Zionist background. Many have family in Israel who are telling them that a dictatorship is coming. We’re not quite at a tipping point yet, but I think we’ll get there.”

Six European countries, including the UK, on Saturday condemned recent Palestinian militant attacks that killed Israeli citizens in the occupied West Bank and called on Israel to halt expansion of settlements there. “We urge the Israeli government to reverse its recent decision to advance the construction of more than 7,000 settlement building units across the occupied West Bank and to legalise settlement outposts,” said the countries in a joint statement.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/05/simon-schama-uk-jews-condemn-israel-far-right-violence-palestinians
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