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I'm not sure what makes you think this land belonged to an "arab country". It isn't more arab than turkish, or british, or jewish, or latin, or any other nation
by bsaul 7y ago
I'm not sure what makes you think this land belonged to an "arab country". It isn't more arab than turkish, or british, or jewish, or latin, or any other nation that has ruled it in the past. If you only look at the last 500 previous years, it belonged to the ottoman empire (not arab), then to the british empire, and now is split between one jewish state and three arab entities/countries (jordan, what's left of the PA and gaza)
Arab population never got along well with the idea of having jews (or anything non-muslim) rule any part of the region, but i don't think the reason has anything to do with sovereign country giving its own land...
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- Synaesthesia 7y agoThe Arab population had tolerated Jews for centuries, where they even thrived I some countries, the persecutions, expulsions, forced conversions etc were far worse in Europe throughout history. There well Palestinian Jews who had lived there for centuries, well integrated, the spoke Arabic, and there were hardly any issues prior to Zionism.
- bsaul 7y agoAlthough your point of view should be pondered by what the status of "dhimmi" is in muslim-ruled countries (not exactly the same as citizen of equal rights), i don't think you contradict my point. Jews were "tolerated", but it was really out of question to have them be in charge.