Obama calls for Israel to restore 1967 boundaries

[vlad321]

badgenome said:

vlad321 said:

badgenome said:

vlad321 said:

As I already stated, it wasn't their neighborhoods. They just immigrated there, and that doesn't make it theirs.

No, the fact that they bought the land is what made it theirs. It might be advantageous if you bother to learn history before attempting to discuss it.

Just for this I spent the last 20 minutes reading, and the best I reason I got for the jewish claim of land was that they asserted 'historic title of the Jewish people to Palestine. That last one was copied from wikipedia which led me to a broken link on the UN site. Maybe I missed soethign but I did not see anything about jews buying the land from the local population, just that they cited some recommendatoin from the UN and that somehow made them "their neighbourhoods."

Try the Peel Commission Report.

And here I thought there was some deal that went down a la Louisiana Purchase where there was a formal deal of "this land now becomes your sovereignty, and this money becomes mine." I am slightly disappointed. Jews had been buying land since before the 20th century from the Ottomans, and just because they bought it doesn't mean it was somehow their new sovereign nation. As I already said, Europe should have just given the land to the palestinians with agreement not to be destructive of the jewish population, not give the jews their own sovereign state.