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aranthus

(3,385 posts)
17. It wouldn't matter.
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 06:11 PM
Jul 2019

The UN has no authority and no power to give anything to anyone. That means Israel/Palestine. The idea that the UN "gave" Israel to the Jews is a myth. It didn't give Israel to the Jews, didn't authorize Israel, and generally had nothing to do with Israel's creation. All the UN did was to suggest a resolution of the already existing dispute between the Jews and the Arabs. The UN can suggest whatever it wants. The Palestinians were free to reject the suggestion and to start a war to drive out the Jews, which is what they did. The catch is that they have to live with the consequences.

As far as "giving" part of the US to Native Americans, the problem is that there is already a sovereign country here called the USA. Sovereign countries tend to object when someone else tries to take their land, and being sovereign, they have the power to make that objection stick. The Arabs of Palestine (they weren't called Palestinians until decades later) were never sovereign.

I was born the year the Palestinians were moved from their homeland. wasupaloopa May 2019 #1
+1 nt Fresh_Start May 2019 #2
the Palestinians were not "moved" Mosby May 2019 #3
Keep your bull shit to your self wasupaloopa May 2019 #4
It's history, not BS. Mosby May 2019 #5
No it is bull shit The people who formed Israel came from Europe after wasupaloopa May 2019 #6
here's a link to a very balanced review of the history Mosby May 2019 #7
Post removed Post removed May 2019 #8
Shalom.... Israeli May 2019 #9
Just to rub it in a little bit more ..... Israeli May 2019 #10
If the UN voted to give 1/4 of the land in the US to the indigenous people Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #12
Every NA tribe in the US had and still can claim ancestral lands. Mosby Jul 2019 #13
Sorry but the whole of the Americas was populated by Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #14
None of that has anything to do with the Jewish people Mosby Jul 2019 #15
No it has everything to do with you. Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #16
It wouldn't matter. aranthus Jul 2019 #17
If the UN had no authority then who gave the land to the Jews? Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #18
Who gave France to the French? aranthus Jul 2019 #19
You mean after their God told them to kill every man, woman and child Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #20
Im really confused ....... Israeli Jul 2019 #21
One at a time. Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #22
I know next to nothing ..... Israeli Jul 2019 #23
You might want to read about some of the autrocities that were performed by the American govenment. Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #24
Israel does not have any morals. Everyman Jackal Jul 2019 #11
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