feeding a deep wish to rewrite history.
The Palestinians and the Arab countries refused to the UN General Assembly resolution 181 consisting of a plan to found a Jewish country and an Arab country in Palestine. The Jewish state, by the way, was supposed to be significantly smaller than what is nowadays called "The Green Line", or the "1967 borders". The Arab countries encouraged the Palestinians to flee from their homes, telling them that they could soon return and rule the entire land as the Jews would be made to disappear. As we know from history, this never happened, and the Jews cannot be blamed for it.
Most of the Jewish people that arrived from Arab countries to Israel in the following years were also refugees. They fled their houses in Lybia, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq and many other Arab countries after withstanding endless pogroms leaving all their properties behind - lands, buildings, money and jewelery. There were many complexes somewhat similar to refugee camps in Israel - "ma'abarot". They did not exist in the 1960s because someone was willing to make it end. The Palestinians had bad luck because their fellow Arab brothers did not give the damn about them. This, however, is neither the Jews' or the Israelis' fault.
To sum up, the Palestinians are champions in making the world pity them without taking any measures to help themselves, or even worse - taking measures that make their situation even worse. The first lesson they must learn is, to accept the fact that Israel there, and it is there to stay.
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feeding a deep wish to rewrite history. The Palestinians and the Arab countries refused to the UN General Assembly resolution 181 consisting of a plan to found a Jewish country and an Arab country in Palestine. The Jewish state, by the way, was supposed to be significantly smaller than what is nowadays called "The Green Line", or the "1967 borders". The Arab countries encouraged the Palestinians to flee from their homes, telling them that they could soon return and rule the entire land as the Jews would be made to disappear. As we know from history, this never happened, and the Jews cannot be blamed for it. Most of the Jewish people that arrived from Arab countries to Israel in the following years were also refugees. They fled their houses in Lybia, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq and many other Arab countries after withstanding endless pogroms leaving all their properties behind - lands, buildings, money and jewelery. There were many complexes somewhat similar to refugee camps in Israel - "ma'abarot". They did not exist in the 1960s because someone was willing to make it end. The Palestinians had bad luck because their fellow Arab brothers did not give the damn about them. This, however, is neither the Jews' or the Israelis' fault. To sum up, the Palestinians are champions in making the world pity them without taking any measures to help themselves, or even worse - taking measures that make their situation even worse. The first lesson they must learn is, to accept the fact that Israel there, and it is there to stay.