We are now at the point where SR realises he's screwed up and starts playing semantic games to try to convince himself he's not completely wrong.

Yes, SR, there were people who were designated as Palestinians because they from a region the British called Palestine. But they weren't an ethnic group. Jews were Palestinians, Egyptians were Palestinians, Syrians, Turk ex-pat Europeans, Iranians, Yazidi.

There are people from a region called Queensland who call themselves Queenslanders, but that doesn't mean there is an ethnic Queenslander group.

But the so-called Palestinians, during the 1940s started to try to claim that they were an ancient peoples, distinct from Syrians and other Arabs. And it just ain't so.

Can't help but notice that SR continues to pretend to not see a whole bunch of facts that he'd prefer not to known about. "Documented cases of rape". SR believed that until he didn't and now pretends he never heard such a thing.

There were over 120 terrorist bombings and attacks in Israel, in a time when Israel was
quite relaxed about Palestinians coming into Israel to use the hospitals, work and shop.

The last straw was the bombing of a busload of Israelie children killing them all.

Israel then built the wall between Israel and Palestine and put guards requiring ID’s of people coming in on the border.
The punishments became harsher to deter these attacks. With the families of Palestinians living in Palestine being expelled
from Israel if a member of their family committed a terrorist attack inside Israel.

Meanwhile missile attacks continued regularly into Israel.
Until Israel had finally had enough and retaliated with a full scale attack, killing 1,0000 Palestinians before being called
off by the United Nations.

The full scale retaliation by Israel, seemed to put an end to the years of missile attacks into Israel, for the moment.

The fight is really a tribal bloodline fight, over the land.
The two populations continue to grow on both sides.
I believe I read somewhere Pr Trump paid the Palestinians a lot of aid money to help them with their poverty
and the financial hardship in Palestine.

For the moment it seems as though it may have eased the tension, but for how long?

Today is celebrated as Israel's foundation day. This is according to the Hebrew calendar although by our calendar it happened on 14 May 1948.

This is a nice article about the role Truman played in that event.
http://lidblog.com/israel-independence/

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Meanwhile on the main point that the resident Sinophiles want to ignore...

"The think tank invited “dozens of experts in international law, genocide studies, Chinese ethnic policies, and the region” to examine “all available evidence that could be collected and verified from public Chinese State communications, leaked Chinese State communications, eye-witness testimony, and open-source research methods.”

The report concluded that the People’s Republic of China bears responsibility “for committing genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention.” Pointing to the Chinese Communist Party’s deliberate actions in killing members of the group, inflicting serious bodily harm, and preventing births, the report concluded that China has the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part” the Uyghur ethnic group under the framework of the Geneva Convention."

http://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17200

As long as the decades of occupation of East Jerusalem,
the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights is justified,
and the Zionist massacres are denied, and the daily
harrassment and humiliation of Palestinians
continues with the razing of homes, the arrests, the
interrogations and torture, the conflict will also continue.

"Never again to anyone" or "Never again to us?"

Is something that requires a great deal of soul searching.

Antony Loewenstein was awarded the Jerusalem Al-Quds
Peace prize in 2019.

Palestinians are calling for equality and justice.
Theirs is a collective human struggle similar to
what happened in challenging apartheid in South
Africa.

Israel has violated over 60 UN Security Council
Resolutions and over 200 UN General Assembly Resolutions.
Without the US using its veto powers to shield Israel
from international law at the United Nations Security
Council, the number would have doubled.