There is are serious anthropological, genealogical, and historical problems with your analysis. About half the Palestine people are descended from the ancient Canaanites who arrived in what is now much of Israel and Palestine at least 1,500 years before Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael probably ever showed up. Relying on biblical tales which combine fiction, myth and occasional actual actual facts is always risky because what we know about ancient civilizations never matches biblical chronology and the former is far more accurate scientifically. The Jews are relative latecomers to the region and the Arabization of the Palestine people already settled there took place many centuries later. My point is that Israeli Jews have no more legal claim to Israel than you or I do compared to descendants of those who were there in pre-biblical times. We can talk about the need for post-Holocaust Jews to have a safe haven state which they can defend, but not at the expense of the millions they displace.
I believe the percentage split of the land in the 1947 UN Partition Plan was around 55% for Israel, not for Palestine as stated in the article. And with further adjustments between 1947-1948 this rose to around 61%. With only 1/3 the population being Jews, getting 55-61% was an exceptionally good deal for them. It also included more of the coastline. By the standards of the world today, it was egregiously unfair. Of course the world was more unfair in the past, but given we’re talking 1947 right after the end of World War Two, it was supposed to be a new dawn - good had defeated evil, right?
There is are serious anthropological, genealogical, and historical problems with your analysis. About half the Palestine people are descended from the ancient Canaanites who arrived in what is now much of Israel and Palestine at least 1,500 years before Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael probably ever showed up. Relying on biblical tales which combine fiction, myth and occasional actual actual facts is always risky because what we know about ancient civilizations never matches biblical chronology and the former is far more accurate scientifically. The Jews are relative latecomers to the region and the Arabization of the Palestine people already settled there took place many centuries later. My point is that Israeli Jews have no more legal claim to Israel than you or I do compared to descendants of those who were there in pre-biblical times. We can talk about the need for post-Holocaust Jews to have a safe haven state which they can defend, but not at the expense of the millions they displace.
I believe the percentage split of the land in the 1947 UN Partition Plan was around 55% for Israel, not for Palestine as stated in the article. And with further adjustments between 1947-1948 this rose to around 61%. With only 1/3 the population being Jews, getting 55-61% was an exceptionally good deal for them. It also included more of the coastline. By the standards of the world today, it was egregiously unfair. Of course the world was more unfair in the past, but given we’re talking 1947 right after the end of World War Two, it was supposed to be a new dawn - good had defeated evil, right?
Thanks Clyde. This is an excellent recap of how the
Middle World came to be.
Regis