Every time someone says "1948," we only get half the story. So here's the whole thing.
In November 1947, the UN voted to divide the land into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The UN didn't give the Jews a country. It recognized a people with 3,000 years of roots in the land, who had been promised a home since 1917.
The Jews got a small, fragmented territory, and Jerusalem wasn't even part of it. They said yes anyway. The Arab leaders said no. The day after the vote, Jewish buses were attacked, and the country slid into war.
And to those who say Israel stole a country.
There was no Palestinian state to steal from. The land had been ruled by the Ottomans for 400 years and then by the British. Israel got its share through the UN. The rest came from a war the other side started.
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The goal wasn't a Palestinian state. The goal was that there would be no Jewish state.
Israel had no real army and barely any weapons, and many of its soldiers were Holocaust survivors who had come ashore only months earlier. They won because the alternative was to die.
Yes, around 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes in that war. Some were expelled by Israeli forces. That's documented, and it shouldn't be denied. Others fled the fighting, and some were told by their own leaders to leave their villages until the Arab armies had won. They didn't.
But there was another expulsion nobody talks about.
Around 850,000 Jews were driven out or pushed out of Arab countries like Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and Morocco. Families who had lived there for centuries lost everything. The Jews of Jerusalem's Old City were expelled by Jordan.
Israel took them in and gave them new lives.
The Arab countries did the opposite with the Palestinians.
They kept them in camps and in refugee status that is now passed down to the fourth generation, so today there are nearly six million registered refugees.
In Lebanon, they're still barred from a long list of professions. And from 1948 to 1967, Jordan held the West Bank and Egypt held Gaza. Neither of them created a Palestinian state. They could have done it at any time.
Israel took in refugees, drained swamps, and built a beautiful country with no oil and enemies on every border.
The Palestinian leaders were offered the same chance, and they chose war instead. Imagine what could have been built if they had said yes.
The roughly 160,000 Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israeli citizens. Today they number around two million, with the right to vote, their own parties, and seats in parliament.
So when someone says Israel was built on expulsion, remember the whole picture. The Palestinians were offered a state before Israel even existed. The Arab side chose war. Israel defended itself.
Israel didn't start that war. It just refused to lose it.
Am Israel Chai.❤️🔥
Isn’t it wild how the majority of the climate change people became the “Free Palestine” people?
They went from hugging trees to hugging terrorists. Wild transition.
John Cleese is a British icon. He has mocked my religion plenty of times, and I still watched his films and laughed. It also gives me fond memories of The Life of Brian.
Blasphemy is not illegal in Britain, nor should offending a religion become a political offence by the back door. John Cleese isn’t for touching. Those trying to cancel him need to remember one thing, we will defend him before we defend your right to silence him
Liberal Democrat’s - if they got into power, would remove all safeguarding sex based rights for women & girls in bathrooms, rape crisis centres & changing rooms. And fair sporting opportunities would be gone too! I can’t believe any sane woman (or dad) would vote for this.
@GENGIS9999 Note: this is the 'Republic of Ireland ' football team/coach.
Northern Ireland have a completely separate team representing Northern Ireland in international football comps.
It’s a real struggle not to feel ashamed of being Irish. The land of Swift, Joyce and Wilde has become the land of Kneecap, Sally Rooney and infinity twats in keffiyehs. Pray for us, says Brendan O’Neill
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This brave super star athlete broke down so many stereotype walls & came out as a strong proud gay woman. When it wasn’t easy to do so. She not against anyone, she’s just pro fair sporting opportunities for women. It’s that simple.
Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.
Dear Russian troll,
A reminder: had it not been for Russia and its pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania would not have been invaded by the Soviet Russian military from 1939 onwards.
In all likelihood, the Second World War would have unfolded very differently had Russia opposed the Nazis at the time instead of, true to form, committing aggression against its neighbours.
We would also remind you of the close cooperation between Russia and Nazi Germany up until June 1941, when Hitler stabbed Stalin in the back and Russia became an enemy of the Nazis virtually overnight.
Kind regards,
Historical Reality
Han pasado 48 horas desde que se confirmó que al menos 100.000 civiles iraníes —la mitad de ellos niños— fueron asesinados por el régimen islámico durante las protestas de enero.
Pedro Sánchez, Greta Thunberg y los activistas propalestinos no han dicho ni una sola palabra.