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By Peter Curson, published 21/12/2015The number of international migrants has more than doubled over the last 30 years from 103 million to more than 250 million today and could quite possibly reach 400 million by 2050.
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I should imagine that what the desperately poor dream of is money and what it can buy, if only they had more of it: they could get a daughter out of prostitution, a couple of sons out of debt slavery, the youngest's first pair of shoes for school, maybe pay back Auntie so-and-so for the rent. And keep dreaming of having an electric light.
Money is not an evil in itself, but only in its unequal distribution. Seriously, when you were starving, were they the happiest weeks of your life ? Would a few quid have made a difference ? Say, to buy just a few pounds of potatoes ?
As for your strange attack on Jews, your lack of knowledge of the Middle East's history is amazing: how do you think the Muslims extended their empire out of Arabia, if not by conquest and extermination ? What do you think the Ottoman Empire was but an Empire ? The name gives you a clue. The Muslim aggressors rampaged across Asia and North Africa and into Europe for more than a thousand years, say from the Berber invasion of southern Spain in 712 AD or so, to the attack on Vienna in 1699.
As for the Jewish belief that, once one places a foot on land, it is always one's own thereafter, that is precisely the Muslim perception: both are, of course, ridiculous. But Jerusalem WAS Jewish and Christian long before it was claimed by Muslims, after Muhammad flew there on his winged horse and climbed up Jacob's ladder to Heaven: ipso facto, Jerusalem became Muslim. [But did Muhammad place his foot on land there ?] And Muslims prayed in its direction for a couple of hundred years afterwards, and built their early mosques facing in that direction, not towards Mecca.
So whether people living in a city for a thousand or more years, being expelled, and returning, OR a bloke flying to it on a winged horse, is the more likely justification for ownership claims - I'll leave that up to you.
Joe