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Palestine - cutting Abbas down to size : Comments
By David Singer, published 16/10/2012Israel comprises only 17% of former Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza 5%, and Jordan makes up the remaining 78%.
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To state a fact is not to express any value judgment.
The Jews are clearly a nation: you can read about it all over the bible, in the Jewish prayer book and in every bit of Jewish literature from many ages.
You may like this fact or you may hate it. You may believe that Jews should inherit the earth, or you may agree with Hitler that they should be eliminated. If you are a Zionist then you believe that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews.
There is a wide consensus within Judaism that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews, which will eventually all return there, but there is also an internal division among the Jews as to whether the time is ripe to return to the land now and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, or whether the Jews are still exiled under God's punishment and must wait patiently until the Messiah comes and brings them back to the land, subduing all nations around on the way.
You may legitimately argue the right of nations to "seize someone else’s land and hold it by violence", but you ridicule yourself in denying the "right" of people to call themselves a nation, especially when they have done so for about 3000 years. Also, by denying them the "right" to consider themselves "special". Do you really believe that one needs permission to think of themselves as "special"? That you personally do not agree that they are has nothing to do with it!
<<It is asserted that Jews loyal to the land of their birth were being “cowardly” by failing to satisfy Zionist ambitions.>>
There were no Zionists yet at Napoleon's times!