Once British forces left the region and the Arabs attacked Israel, the partition plan became irrelevant and the division of the country was to be decided according to the outcome of the war. And yes, losing a war means losing the territory from which you attacked. The Arabs have no one to complain to but themselves. Perhaps in your view Israel should have surrendered instead of defending itself?

It's interesting that Egypt is also blockading Gaza but no one is complaining about them or shooting rockets at Cairo?

Yes, but under various different regimes, none of which were Arab. Living somewhere doesn't automatically grant political power over that territory, and the political powers decided to divide the territory among the two peoples inhabiting the area; a plan that was, as mentioned, rejected by the Arabs who wanted everything.

First of all, settlers were moved to the Negev and the Galilee, not to the West Bank. Secondly, the West Bank has never, ever been "Palestinian land".

It's not a revision of history, it's a factually correct statistic as of 1948. If you want we can go back as far as the Bronze age and argue about who was right at every point, but I actually have better things to do with my time.

What forceful removal of people from their homes are you talking about?

And by the way, I think there is only one side here who is using an ancient fictional book as a pretext for murdering innocent people all over the world, and it's not the Jews.

What do you mean "their land"? The land wasn't theirs, not then and not ever! The Arabs were choosing between accepting the partition plan and "driving the Jews into the sea" and they chose the latter and failed. Everything we know today is a consequence of that choice and subsequent failure to execute it.

What Israel? This was November 1947.

By your arguments, nobody has any rights to any land whatsoever because someone else lived there once. I think that an Arab, from Arabia, has no right to tell a Jew, from Judea, that he is an intruder in his own land.

The UN partition plan was rejected by the Arabs. Why should Israel respect it?

The people of Gaza are living under their own rule, and they have an army, which is presently shooting rockets at Israel.

Islam teaches peace with all other people, as long as they too are Muslim. And even that doesn't prevent Muslims from killing each other all over the Middle East.

Answer the question.

Umm, isn't that exactly what happened in Gaza?

Where have you read this thing you call the Israeli account of history? Israel accepted the Arab minority as citizens from its declaration; any Arabs who escaped or were expelled were a direct result of the war that was declared by the Arabs.

It didn't exist. What's your point?

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