Let me reply to both of you at the same time.
We didn't just leave our country , we stood up against the Romans which tried to take it away from us ,
but we were forced out of it. We tried to continue living outside it ,but frankly other nations didn't really like the new foreigners which with time became more and more hated by those around them for just being different. We were
discriminated , convicted ,robbed , raped ,killed and murdered by Discriminators all around the world. This trouble which gained the name "The Problem of the Jews" existed for about 2000 years. Then came a great man back in 1882 , his name was Leon Pinsker. After he experienced the pogroms and the anti-Semitism in South-East Russia he understood a solution for the problem must be found. His solution was
the establishment of a Jewish State where the Jews will be able to revive their autonomy.
Then others like him started to appear like Theodor Herzl , Chaim Weizmann and many other Jews which decided that the only solution is to establish a Jewish state. That is how the Zionist movement was established. Jews started to come to Israel and a new jewish community started to grow here.
After the holocaust where 6 million Jews were burned ,gassed , shot and murdered by the Nazis in the most Barbaric & Cruel way the world has ever seen , all the world started to recognize the trouble of the Jewish people. Then on November 29 , 1947
the world acknowledged the right of the Jewish people to establish a state in the Land of Israel by a democratic vote.
Now the UN had also plans to divide the country between the Arabs and the Jews. Seems fair right? I mean you are right the Arabs were also living here so they should also have some of the land right? Here is one of the those plans:
Now you might be thinking : "Ok if there was a division plan why isn't there an Arab state today beside the Jewish state". That is because it was rejected. By who? Surprisingly the Arabs rejected this plan
flatly .
You can see clearly that the Arab territory (in brownish-green) is much larger than the Jewish territory (in purple). Also note that they were given Jerusalem in this agreement. Now it seems like a bad deal for the Jews right? They get almost no territory and it is not even excluding Jerusalem. Now here is the response from the leader of the Jewish community in Israel , David Ben-Gurion : "We are being given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imagination. This is more than a state, government and sovereignty---this is a national consolidation in a free homeland. ... if because of our weakness, neglect or negligence, the thing is not done, then we will have lost a chance which we never had before, and may never have again." .
The Jews accepted most of the offers which were given by the British crown and the UN ,
while the Arabs rejected every one of them.
Now why did they reject it? It seems you need to be crazy to not accept such a deal. There Arabs were not stupid as it might seem , No. They knew that if an Jewish state would be establish the Neighboring Arab countries will invade it and as they said: "
We will throw the Jews to the sea". They were planning to kill us all back then. Now we are not really good swimmers you see... but we are good at some other stuff. On the day the british left the country all of the neighboring Arab countries launched an attack on the Jewish communities and Jews declared of the establishment of The State Of Israel. The israeli army was weak , with old technology , not much combat means and actually not much people. What happened next was almost a miracle. The Jews defeated all of the Arab countries and got ahold of much more territory than they were promised with. Now areyoume remember saying that we didn't deserve this country since we just left it (which proved to be false) ? Well then what will you say if I would tell you the
these Arabs (The future Palestinians)
ran away from their homes before the war? They didn't want be caught in the middle of a war and thought that after the Jews will die they would be able to go back to their homes. Frankly we didn't die XD .
That reason that there are some many Palestinians in the Gaza strip and in Judea and Samaria (Including East Jerusalem)
is because that those were territories that were conquered by the Egyptian and the Jordanian armies . Therefore the Jews didn't just decided to lock the 'poor' Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank as you said (not sure which of you).
Now the thing is that you need to understand that the reality here is quite complex. You can't just ignore the past 2000 years or even the past 100 years and choose to look at what ever you want. I am also sorry for the long post ,but a complex reality requires a complex and long post. I don't blame you for not knowing the whole truth or even a bit of it. You don't leave here. You know nothing of what happens here ,but some photos of pro-Palestinian propaganda.
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