freediver wrote on Oct 12
th, 2025 at 12:08pm:
Quote:Because they kicked Palestinians out of the land now called Israel?
They were free to stay. About 20% of Israel's current population is local Arab Muslims who decided to stay. They now enjoy more rights and freedoms, and more say in the governance of the country than in any other middle eastern or north african country.
The rest were either killed trying to fight the Jews, or left the area because other Muslim countries encouraged them to leave when they were invading, and promised they would receive the Jews' land and property once they had been slaughtered.
As a politics forum owner, you embarrass yourself.
The terms of Israel’s statehood required that all Arabs within the former Jewish enclaves within Palestine and any land tha was subsequently legally annexed by Israel would be recognised as Israeli citizens.
Because of this, Israel attempted to expel by force all Arabs prior to the formal declaration of statehood.
It’s ethnic cleansing was halted by the US before the West Bank could be cleansed.
As for the West Bank, For those who know something of the talmud, would understand that Jews refer to it as Judaea-Samaria - the heartland of the ancient Jewish biblical region. Israeli governments claim it as part of greater Israel without which the state of Israel cannot be complete. Israel regularly expels both Christian and Muslim Arabs and non-Arabs from the region, replacing them with Jewish settlers from around the world including from the US and Australia.