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Originally posted by debaser
But don't forget that all of the nice letters in the world doesn't change the fact that in 1922 there were about 84,000 jews in Palestine. By 1942 there were 484,000.
Why were they all moving there?
Because Palestine had been declared the Jewish homeland by the First Zionist Congress (1897). If I was a gentile living there I would feel a bit nervous about my future, wouldn't you?
Fast forward to 1947, UN181, and the partition of Palestine:
Jews make up 30% of the population, and own only 6% of the land (most being city dwellers). They are granted 55% of the land in the partition.
I might have hard feelings about that, too.
Fast forward to 2003:
Israel, in the one of the greatest security blunders of all times, has ghettoized Palestinians into highly concentrated population centers, where, since they have no jobs (or economy for that matter), they breed (will be a majority of the population in Israel by the year 2020), simmer with hatred, and build bombs.
Who knows, maybe if Israel represses them a bit more, they will stop hating Israel. I always find that if you beat someone enough they eventually start liking you... 
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Very interesting post, there's 2 sides to this story, and it's going to take both sides effort and will to push the process forward. As long as they continue to stew and hate each other, nothing gets done (except more killing).
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