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Quote by: Gaius Off topic, spam. Also im not interesting in getting to know you, not in the least.

Not really just being freindly, but at least now I know what kind of guy you are.

Prove all of this.

actually it was you who made the claim (that land was stolen), so it is up to you to support it.

They did in fact arrive from europe and russia and violently remove people from their homes or through intimidation.

No, because intiially (ie for th 50 or so years of zionism before israel was a state) Jews couldn't do that. neither the turks nor the brits were going risk upsetting the arabs for the jews, yes all the land owned by jews pre-48 was legally bought. Often times they did remove arabs from the land, but it was land they had long tenant farmed rather then owned. the Jews owned it and therefore could do what they liked,

International Law recognize the RIGHT of people to return to their homes and their land, if the reason they left was ANY KIND of "duress" or "crisis" or even RUMORS of violence or war.

Internaional law recognizes A lot of things, that doesn't mean jack shit.

International law does gives refugees these rights, there are no words that says people lose their land if they leave it or abandon it. NONE at all

Yes there is, its called "common sense". If tommorrow canada invades the US and I flee to canada. I can't come back and be like "uhh i want my house back..." Especailly when my neighbro stayed.

The millions of palestinians living in refugee camps now, sold their homes and their property to live in tents in neighboring countries? Palestinians according to you, just feel like putting on suicide belts or lobbing missiles at israelis as a sport?

No, The refugees are mostly the result of people who left thinking they would follow the victours arab armies and take over the land the jews had bougth without buying it. Forgive me for my lack of empathy.

Please dont let me see you cry when missiles and suicide attacks begin blowing up people in Israel.

Then don't let me see you whine when Arabs die in counter attacks

You want to play games with the lives of israelis thats fine, but dont make up stuff as you go, at least understand why they are being killed.

I do understand, the real question is do you.

and as choas bar said this is OT

Chaosbar: I was reading an article about it earlier (a professor handed it out in class jstor I think) and it was disucsisng the possiblities. My theory is a mix of 2 the paper suggestd

1) Taking out a muntions depot that was going to be transfered to hezbollah. All those missles that were hurting tanks go bye bye Caesar.

2) To show the Syrians/Iranians that their fancy air defense systems they paid russia a fortune for aren't as good as they think.