abu_rashid wrote on Aug 29
th, 2010 at 2:00pm:
Cockney Doll,
Quote:Jordan has refused to take any back and that’s where they come from in the main.
Your post is just utter fantasy.
For a start Jordan has taken more Palestinian refugees than any other country. Jordan has about 2 million people who were displaced as a result of the creation of Israel in Palestine. Out of those 2 million, about 300,000 of them still live in refugee camps, the rest has assimilated into the mainstream society.
Secondly, could you please provide some evidence for this wild claim that "that's where they come from in the main"? I realise it might be convenient for you to claim Palestinians are actually from Jordan, and that "Eretz Yisrael" was an empty land when the Jews arrived at the turn of the 20th. century, but don't try to pass it off as historical fact, because it simply is not.
My goodness what an anger issue you have, it needs attention professionally.
I don't intend on answering too much, as my typing is slow and I don't have the time.
I never said that the land where Israel now sits was empty [those are your words] However it was VERY sparsely inhabited.
Don't argue on that score, as you will only show your ignorance.
From a British source and I never bothered with the link
"By the end of 1947, Palestine Mandate government estimates indicate that of a total population of 1.9 million" ( the Mandate was 118,000 sq klms, of which 77% went to Jordan)
...................... so where you get your figures from I don't know.
Estimates vary from about 520,000 (Israeli sources) to 711,000 (UN sources) on the numbers of Arabs who fled Israel at Partition in 1948, which would be about right, if you work it out.
Firstly Mark Twain made a strong point of it. So read his book.
Secondly, my father was taken as a 2 month old baby to Israel and I have tales galore of what Palestine was like back then. Not only from my father, but from his mother and 7 remaining siblings. I say remaining. because one was killed at the age of 19, in 1922, by a bomb during the Arabs riots, which where in abundance during the 1920s. Another was killed in London is a freak accident.
My family in Israel are still in very close contact with the descendants of a number of Arabs, with whom they grew up.
The majority of Arabs in the Gaza Strip where those and their descendants, who were thrown out of Jordan during the era of the Black September movement. King Hussein said in no uncertain terms. that the country would not allow them back, as they were trouble makers, as we well know, I think, because I don't have the link and don’t have the time or the inclination to go looking, you will have to take me on my word . However, I can see from your rude, self serving, superior and insulting attitude, that you judge people by your own standards, so you most likely won't........tough luck.
Why are you Arabs so all consumed over a tiny country with a population of just
7 ½ million, which occupies 1/8th of 1% of the ME?? Maybe it’s the achievements that such a small group of people have reached.?