rEvolutionist wrote:
The fallacy of that map is that "Palestinian" means "non-Jewish." It doesn't.
The map is also wrong, as "Palestine" in 1947 was bigger than that green area, and included the Jewish ares in white as well as areas not colored green or white in that little map.
"Palestine" was carved up into more than just "Israel" and "Palestinian" territories. Part of it became Jordan, for example. Part of it became Israel, for another example. And, in 1947, there was no such thing as a "Palestinian." They were Arabs. If you look at any documents from the time, you won't find references to Palestinians -- you'll find references to Arabs.
The map above is wrong, also, in that the West Bank was not formed by the UN as some sort of "Palestinian territory" in 1947 or 1949. The West Bank was part of the Mandate for Palestine beginning around 1918. Prior to that it was part of the Ottoman Empire and had been part of the Ottoman Empire for 450 years.
The British Mandate for Palestine involved different peoples -- Christians, Jews and Muslims, mostly Arabs, living in the same region. There was no nation of Palestine or people called Palestinians. There was no nation called Israel, and there was no nation called Jordan -- they did not exist at all in history.
So, in 1921, the country of Transjordan was created. Then in 1949, the country of Israel was created. The Arabs rejected the creation of the country of Israel, but not Jordan. The UN did not include the West Bank or Gaza in the nation of Israel.
Immediately upon the creation of Israel, the Arab nations attacked. After capturing the West Bank area during the 1948–49 war with Israel, King Abdullah of Transjordan took the title King of Jordan and, in April 1949, officially changed the country's name to the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan". And Jordan annexed the West Bank. Jordan ruled the West Bank until 1967. In 1967, the Six Day War was started by the Arabs and Israel took control over the West Bank and Gaza.
The idea of the West Bank as being some sort of Palestinian country is a creature of the mid-1960's, when Arafat and the gang came to be in sort of a paramilitary organization called "the Palestinian Liberation Organization." Their goal, of course, is not just the "liberation" of the West Bank and Gaza, but the "liberation" of the entire area known as Palestine, which includes but is not limited to the current state of Israel, and what that means is "Jews out, or dead."
To support such an organization or goal is to support racism, bigotry and genocide. It is they, the PLO, and now Hamas, among others like the Hizb'Allah in Lebanon, etc., that want to exterminate the Jews, or at least force them to leave. If such talk occurred in any other context, like if people say "Mexicans, go home to Mexico!" it is properly characterized as racism and bigotry. However, for some reason, "Jews go home, or die" or words to that effect, is considered appropriate by many so-called "liberals" because for some reason they categorize Palestine as properly devoid of Jewishness.
It isn't. Jews are as entitled to live there as anyone else. And, Israel is as entitled to exist as Lebanon, Jordan or Iraq.
