No, including me.
Yes, and you totally forget who it is that will not allow them to return to their land. (without having to sign it away).
I did not forget. It's Israel and for two reasons.
1 - because the Arabs won't let the Jews back in either.
2 - it happend before :letter from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Oswald November 26 1782:
(Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin)
"Your ministers require, that we should receive again into our bosom, those who have been our bitterest enemies, and restore their properties who have destroyed ours, and this while the wounds they have given us are still bleeding ! It is many years since your nation expelled the Stuarts and their adherents, and confiscated their estates. Much of your resentment against them may by this time be abated ; yet if we should propose it, and insist on it as an article of our treaty with you, that that family should be recalled, and the forfeited estates of its friends restored, would you think us serious in our professions of earnestly desiring peace?"
No I'm not exaggerating and you are well aware of that fact. you also know that the Palestinians had no more reason to accept a partition than you have to sign all your worldly goods and possessions over to me.
The fact that an olive harvest was successful, in no way exonerates the Israelis for the theft of the land and demolition of olive groves. It was only successful for the remaining olives. You are obviously an idiot of the first order.
Yes you are exaggerating.
They should have accepted. They would have had more land than they will ever have. There would have been peace en no oslo accords would have been needed, so no Israeli IDF forces in some areas of the West bank. No refugees.
No defeat in several conflicts. And I can go on.
Abbas faults Arab refusal of 1947 U.N. Palestine plan:
"Arabs made a "mistake" by rejecting a 1947 U.N. proposal that would have created a Palestinian state alongside the nascent Israel"
There are two reasons for uprooted Olive trees:
1 - illegally planted, they have to be removed.
2 - destroyed by religious fanatic Israelis, a crime.
Both destructions are almost neglectible considering the amount of olive trees in the West Bank. 10 Million olive trees for 100.000 families!
Yes and no doubt when they are finally forced into admitting that Israel is a rogue state they will help get rid of them too. The US supported all of these whilst under the control of dictatorial regimes. My point being that US support is no guarantee of a legitimate regime.
Israel is accepted throughout the world (exept Moslim countries). It's the best working democracy in the ME. They will get western support as long as is needed.
Your statement like your logic is contradictory, as it was the Israelis who pushed the Palestinans out of their land, not the reverse.
Again you skip a timeline. They fled because of the Arab attacks. The Arabs themselves caused it.
A collection of historical quotations relating to the Arab refugees
IN THE MARCH 1976 issue of Falastin a-Thaura, then the official journal of the Beirut-based PLO, Mahmud Abbas ("Abu Mazen"), PLO spokesman, wrote: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live."
You've forgotten your medication again haven't you as this has been answered? The Palestinians are the recognised descendants of the original occupants. The fact that Arabs are intermixed does not lessen this claim. your memory is atrocious.
The Palestinians are not recognised as the original occupants, the people who lived there are, including Jews and Christians. The "Palestinians" only exists for about a century.
Mahmoud Abbas
"even the churches were not spared. One of the oldest churches in Palestine, which stood
long before our arrival"
Synagogues were build
before the churches....
"Palestine's Rural Economy, 1917 - 1939"
"During the early decades of the twentieth century in Palestine, the majority Arab population sustained itself primarily through agricultural and pastoral pursuits. The land and its management dominated the peasant's life. Palestinian fellaheen precariously but diligently existed in degrees of subsistence and poverty. The annual struggle to survive required rugged persistence. It necessitated an almost fatalistic acceptance of repeated destitution and regular financial insolvency. The rural economy's nature prevented the peasant from enjoying economic or political independence."
WRONG! The Aboriginals as a group owned the land, a fact that is written in law and recognised internationally. After all it was largely international pressure that bought this recognition about.
Where are the borders of their land and who drew them? The Aboriginals were
given property rights in the Native Title Act of 1993. If you "own" the land why is it that someone else gives you property rights?