To be honest, the Israelites and the Palestinians both were promised they could have the land of Israel, just at different times of history. So you can't say thar it's unfairly given, tough you are right about the ethnic cleansing.

Well if the Palestinian terrorists stopped firing missiles at Israel, they may get further with the peace talks... Although equally your comment could apply to America where they stole the land off the natives and have "given" them the worst, most worthless land they could find for their "reserves"

You just described every nation in the Western Hemisphere. (And if you go back far enough, the Eastern Hemisphere, too.) Kinda sucks that most of Israel's neighbors (Syria, Iraq, Lebanon) were run by political parties founded by Hitler... but lapdogs like you lick up every bit of hate they can manufacture.

No, completley wrong. We came back to our fatherland, and since then many of you are trying to ethnicly cleanse us from it. Like you did many times before, in different and varied times and places

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500% increase in population with a 80% reduction in child mortality and 15 years longer lifespan is ethnic cleansing? I dont think you know what that word means. And those are the Palestinian Arabs. Israeli Arabs serve as Generals, on the Supreme Court, as Ministers, etc. and 90% of the Arabs came post 1820 during one of three arab colonization projects. The Jews have always had a prescense there and even the Arab leaders in the early 1900s acknowledged the Jews claim to it. Further very little of the land was owned by anyone. 1/3 of private land in 1948 was Jewish owned, 2/3 arab owned (though most by few wealthy land barons), and the rest owned by the British Govt and owned by the Ottomans before. It was govt land, not private. But I guess facts and history dont matter to antisemites who want to do actual ethnic cleaning of Jews from their ancestral homeland while destroying all Jewish holysites and supporting the destruction of archeological sites. GTFO you Neo-Nazi

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Israel is home to our HOLIEST place, AND we need a safe place. I'm not saying that the Palestine situation is okay, but we HAVE BEEN GIVEN THAT LAND, and the Palestinians aren't helping the situation. Most people want peace, but the extremists on both sides are vocal and many *idiots* who aren't Jewish or Israeli seem to think that it's easy, black and white, give the land to the Palestinians. What about the fact that we gave them Gaza and the West Bank? The situation isn't perfect but Israel has a fundamental right to exist as a Jewish state IN THE PLACE WHERE IT IS. Palestinians have a right to be there too, but so do we, and we DESPERATELY need a safe space for us, as we are a marginalized and widely hated group that has been in diaspora for 2000 years and has been systematically murdered.

Why would you say it "belonged" to Palestine though? All depends on how far back you go in history..

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Actually it was bought by the Israelites because it was malaria infested swamp wasteland that couldn't be used so it was worthless, but the Palestinians wanted it back after the Israelites managed to dry the swamps, eradicate the malaria mostly (because mosquitos can't breed that easily without enough water) and got very good farmland from that.