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Old Jul 28, 2007, 02:56 pm   #1 (permalink) (top)
Atlas
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"Time makes it right"-Paradox of the continuous longest settlement claim in Palestine

One of the key arguments of every Palestinian or Palestinian supporter is the aggressive settlement of Jews in Israel\Palestine in the last century, together with the outcome of the 48' war brought the Jews to a sovereignty and majority in Israel after a definite Arab/Palestinian one that stood for more than a thousand years, so what was allegedly a cruel and violent takeover cannot be considered a rightful claim and control over the land, and when the other side mentions that the Arabs weren't such peace loving hippies either when they decided to move here the most common response is - "chill' man... it was like 1400 years ago...".

So, is time of residence really the main factor in a claim for a land regardless of the overall violence of the conquest, settlement, murder and deportation of unwanted populations ? If so shouldn't the Jewish claim be reinforced with the extra ~2000 they've been here before the Muslims and Arabs further down history ? or does the factor applies only to "the most time in the land by the current majority and the previous one", in that case the Arab claim surely wins by far, and in that case, shouldn't the twinkling Jewish majority of the Israel learn from this supposed factor that no one cares how you got here if you've been here long enough, maybe it should, deport all the Arabs to wherever, reset the timer, and start counting, until the answer to an Arab demanding to return to Palestine would be - "Chill' man... that was like a 1000 years ago...", and nobody would even remember what was the level violence and aggressiveness of the Jewish resettlement here way back in the 20th century, only that they are there, and where the only ones there for a while, the same status Arabs\Palestinians enjoy today.


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