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- Silvbird, on 05/13/2008, -4/+11Letter: Israel @ 60
Sunday, 11 May 2008
To claim that Israel is "the country that famously made the desert bloom" overlooks the Peel Commission's findings in 1936-7 that Palestine was the world's leading citrus exporter ("Israel at 60", 4 May). It was not a barren desert awaiting redemption by Europe's Jews. And Raymond Whitaker's reference to "last summer's seizure of Gaza by Hamas" ignores the inconvenient truth that Hamas is the legitimately elected government of Palestine. As we are told repeatedly by Israeli politicians, a government has the right to defend its citizens.
Ibrahim Hewitt, Leicester
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/lette ... - yonoz, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4...and who exported all this citrus?
Could it be... Jewish Zionists, later to be known as Israelis? - dkapuchino, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3The Great Arab Revolt (1936–1939) (Wikipedia)
The death of the Shaykh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam at the hands of the British police near Jenin in November 1935 generated widespread outrage and huge crowds accompanied Qassam's body to his grave in Haifa. A few months later, in April 1936, a spontaneous Arab national general strike broke out. This lasted until October 1936. During the summer of that year thousands of Jewish-farmed acres and orchards were destroyed, Jews were attacked and killed and some Jewish communities, such as those in Beisan and Acre, fled to safer areas.[56] After the strike, one of the longest ever anticolonial strikes, the violence abated for about a year while the British sent the Peel Commission to investigate.[57]
In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed a partition between a small Jewish state, whose Arab population had to be transferred, and an Arab state to be attached to Jordan. The proposal was rejected by the Arabs and by the Zionist Congress (by 300 votes to 158) but accepted by the latter as a basis for negotiations between the Executive and the British Government.[58][59]
So, what do you have here? 1936-37, Palestine is the world's leading citrus exporter, thanks to Jewish farmers. A British comittee suggests splitting up Palestine in to two countries, a very very small Israeli state, with a huge Arab state. This was not acceptable to the arabs, which decide to riot, attack the Jews, and ~~thousands of Jewish-farmed acres and orchards were destroyed~~
Good thing we get letters by an Arab immigrant, "Ibrahim Hewitt" to skew the facts and history. - dkapuchino, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Is that a link to your blog? pretty reliable I'd say.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -3/+3Israel 'making the desert bloom' is a myth anyway. The Israelis use copious quantities of water to make things grow (or even to wash their cars. The Jordanians for instance are much more efficient in their use of water (they have no choice, after the Syrians and especially the Israelis take their cut of the waters in the Jordan rivers and its tributaries there is no more than a trickle left for Jordan).
- americangoy, on 05/13/2008, -3/+3"Many other Jews and allies joined us inside as well as outside to voice our opposition to an organization that continually claims to speak in our name"
http://americangoy.blogspot.com/2008/05/instead-of ...
70%+ American Jews oppose Iraq war. - AndyCappp, on 05/13/2008, -4/+1Good on them for standing up to zionism.
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