Obama calls for Israel to restore 1967 boundaries

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vlad321 said:

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.

If you want to buy land in certain parts of Texas to this day, you sometimes have to go back to records from Spanish rule to figure out who currently owns it. The deeds didn't cease to be binding just because the Ottomans were defeated by the British, nor did they when the British mandate was terminated. Suppose the UN were inclined to go with your hare-brained suggestion. When the Arabs began attacking Jewish neighborhoods en masse (to the point that the British could not stop them), it was clear that there would be never be a guarantee of safety for the Jews.

Furthermore, you continue to wrongly consider the Jews as aliens and the Arabs as the natives. The Arab population of Palestine more than doubled from the 1890s until Israeli independence largely on the strength of immigration from other Arab provinces and driven, ironically, by economic opportunities created by the Jews.