(This is a continuation of a thread hijacking discussion in the 'Could Assad Win?' thread. Ralkovia et al)
I'd be happy to discuss the matter with you
Something you may find interesting is that former Palestine was not the originally intended site for modern Israel. When Theodor Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat he originally thought that an agreeable site would be modern Uganda. They considered buying it from Britain briefly but in the end they decided on the traditional site.
The thing is that it was purchased little by little from the Ottoman Empire, so the original site was actually Israeli land by legal transfer of land by way of purchase. The current situation owes much to the Arab invasion of Israel in '48 as the Arabs (not as much Palestinians but mostly Egyptians and Jordanians) tried to wipe out the Jews. The Arab invasion was defeated (but not after killing many Jews and destroying many villages in the process), and the Arabs evacuated many civillians fearing reprisals. Sadly they were right to do so, because there were many vengeful paramilitaries which went after Arab civillians as well. If anything, many Jews to this day are angry that Ben-Gurion did not forcibly remove all Arabs from the land.
I'm curious your thoughts.
