Rocket strike on Tel Aviv - sirens heard first time after 20 years, during Gulf war

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You forgot to call them "Faux" News while talking about how the poor, poor "Palestinians" land was stolen.

Why the quotes around the word Palestinians? They are real people you know. Descendants of the ancient philistines.

The coastal area that Israel occupies now is actually ancient Philistine - it's the West Bank that is Judea. In the 1940's, the Israelis simply seized Philistine and expelled the rightful owners who'd been living there for 5000+ years. Ben Gurion admitted as much, and they did it because they weren't in a position to seize Judea. In other words they stole land, and practiced ethnic cleansing which was similar to what had been done to them in Germany.

And you have orthodox Jews now trying to take the west bank - which they say is their ancestral homeland, and it is - but they don't want to give the Palestinians back their ancestral homeland - which is modern Israel on the coast. The Israelis want to keep the stolen land.

And because the Palestinians won't meekly "accept" what has been done to them, they are being slaughtered. But would anyone seriously just accept their land being stolen, or would they fight back?

 

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Also - many of the Palestinians in the West Bank (former Judea) are actually Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of Christ (a third of all Palestinians worldwide are Christian) and some later converted to Islam.

Just because they converted, doesn't mean they've lost their right to their property. If you did DNA tests on them and compared DNA to the ancient Hebrews, the West Bank Palestinians are a closer match, being direct descendants, than the Eastern European Slavs who have turned up claiming to be Jewish.

And in any case, in most sane states, changing your religion doesn't mean you lose your right to your property or citizenship - most of us change religion and are still the same people with the same rights.