When I refer to "New Israel", I'm refering to...


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Posted by confederate jew on January 31, 19102 at 20:05:00:

In Reply to: Did the "expatriated Jordanians" own property in "New Israel" posted by or were they temps from Jordan? on January 31, 19102 at 18:14:01:

the west bank occupied territory, which is mainly occupied by "Palestinians"
(which I refer to as expatriated Jordanians). Israel considers this their
land, which they captured in the '67 war. The '67 war was an unprovoked war
waged by Syria, Jordan, and Egypt against Israel - to "push the Jews into the
sea", i.e. take all of Israel from the Jews. Israel won the war, and in the
process took the Saini peninsula, the Golan Heights, Gaza, and the West bank
region and buffer zones - since the geography of Israel leaves it vulnerable to
attack from these three countries again. Israel made peace with Egypt and gave
back the Saini that it captured. It kept some, but not all of the Golan
region - so Syria and Israel are still enemies. Israel also kept all of the
west bank region, but released a sizeable portion of Jordan, which it also
captured during the war.

It is the West Bank region that is in dispute, and which I refer to as "New
Israel". The Expatriated Jordanians continue to own the bulk of the property
in New Israel, for the simple reason that Israel has allowed them to do so,
even though these are the same people that waged war against them in '67, but
lost. Many other countries would have militarily forced these people back into
their country of origin - Jordan, in accordance with the new border, or
exterminated them. In my opinion, Israel was far too merciful and should have
eliminated the problem of enemies living within its borders, at the time it won
the war. They should have forced Jordan to take back its people.

Borders often change following a war in favor of the victor. The people in the
newly acquired region are usually forced to pledge their loyalty to their new
nation - if they wish to stay, allowed to leave, or be killed as enemies of the
state. The problem arrises because Jordan shut its borders to these
Jordanians after the war. Exacerbating the problem is the fact that Israel was
weak in dealing with these people for decades following the war. Some Jews,
especially the ones who founded Israel have a strong distaste for dealing
harshly with their enemies, stemming from what they went through during WWII

I am not one of those Jews. War is war. People who start wars, but loose are
killed, suffer tragic physical and emotional losses, loose material posessions
and land. If war was easy with little serrious risk, everybody would engage in
it. The penalties for engaging in war are enormously high - and they must
remain that way for the greater good of humanity.




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