So you assumed I was racist because I stated Iran was authoritarian, just like I call China and Russia authoiritarian.
It's sad that your sense of history is based on snippets.
Try reading Rashid Khalidi or his uncle, both well regarded Palestinian historians (who were wealthy and just moved to their homes in Beirut and Riyad). But include those uncomfortable facts that for most Palestinians, their leaving was a choice. It seems like you are immune to anything but propaganda but the reason they fled was fear that was promoted by Palestinian leadership and Jewish sources. The only ethnic cleansing was people in villages that were directly involved in attacks on Jews.
Do you not see how stupid it is to call it ethnic cleansing when 1/4 of the Arab population was welcomed with full citizenship, just as was promised in their independence announcement.
Holy imaginary complaint. Go back and read what I posted. I used the exact same language to describe the Palestinian refugees and the Jewish refugees. Seems you have an agenda here.
From the guy who just criticized the concept of nations.
Most of those million Jews were Ottoman citizens, just like every other Ottoman citizen. When the Ottoman empire collapsed, minority ethnic states were created. We can also discuss how many Palestinians migrated to the Palestine Mandate after the idea of Zionism was created. Numerous prominent Palestinians are descended from families that came from what is now Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia (especially after the Hashemites lost Mecca to Saud). Are you going to argue that Arabs from those places are really native to Palestine but Jews from those places weren't?
And more importantly, the Arab Jews were refugees, not immigrants. And the reason they were refugees is because some Arab leaders pushed domestic Jew hatred as a political move over Israel.
Ah, the racism again when you don't like reality. The UN Convention on refugees says host countries give refugees the opportunity to assimilate. The Arab League states instead established camps to hold Palestinian refugees without providing any status. That lack of status has been passed on to generations of children born in those countries. Lebanon still has laws on the books denying basic services to the descendants of Palestinian refugees.
What would you say if Canada changed its laws so that refugees and their children were refused health care, education, or any status and instead left them at the mercy of UN charity?
Agreed with that definition. And that is precisely what the CIA, JSOC, Mossad, Sayaret Matkal and numerous other western military organizations do,...[/quote]
Maybe it's the western press but I don't see many cases where those groups target purely civilian targets the way that Iranian backed terror groups do. Sounds just like the excuses you're making for Iran having nukes.
