["Secondly the Bedoin are NOMADIC by nature, so any talk of property rights is rediculous."]

As were the Aborigines of Australia, of the Americas, of Africa and many other examples including some in Europe but I guess the most important one in the context of your attempted rebuke is that so were the JEWS of Western Asia. Come to think of it they've been pretty bloody NOMADIC everywhere, haven't they?

Westy.... the Aboriginals of Australia DO have a claim here.... they WERE the originals as far as we know. They don't need a divine mandate to have a right to the place.

The only think they lacked is the power.. as with all conquered people.
They had the right...but not the 'might'...and now history has moved on.

In the case of Israel?

a) They have the historic right
b) The divine mandate
c) The power to keep it.

Be thankful they don't exercise ALL of that divine mandate which gives them from the Red sea to the Euphrates mate.

AllGoreisRich....rich in what?
Very misinformed; or is it wilful self-dellusionment?
The Israelis do
NOT have a historic claim.Get your Ancient History correct. What history book did you get and from whom?
NOT have a divine rigjht at all. Recent anthropoligal work has put an end to this delusion as well.Why dont you get a copy of the studies made by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman called "The Bible Unearthed"? Notice anything revealing about the names?
Finkelstein is Director of trhe Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, if you dont mind and Silberman is Director for the Ename Centre for Public Archeology and Heritage Presentation in Belgium. Their research has been endorse by BARUCH Halpern, author of "The Hebrew Bible and History" and Jonathon Kirsch of the Losangeles Times.

Need I say any more.

The Israelis are the worst thieves of Real Estate in Palestine. History bears evidence of this. That is, if you are even modeerately read in Palestinian History in the 20th Century

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