Zionism is Jewish Liberation from antisemites like AMY can't stand it.
Z I O N I S M Israeli rights on the land are greater, and in most instances more just than Arab claims, many of which were false. There are always grievances in war and there will be in this ongoing conflict. Zionism is a "Jewish Liberation Movement" to find safe haven on the land where many of the Jews were once expelled -- but some continued to live for 20 centuries or portions thereof. And Zionism was an attempt to provide justice to those who were denied justice, but also equity, and to liberate the Jews from oppression in Europe and elsewhere and to provide escape from persecution by tyranical Islamic governments. Zionism was to be liberation from antisemtism. East Jerusalem was occupied by Jordan for 19 years and Jews were denied access to their homes in a city where Jews outnumbered Arabs from the time of the first census in 1840 onward? Who objected when Jews were expelled from Arab countries in the 1940s and banished from them forever and had their land and property stolen from them? Israel Took in Millions of Refugees (all of them Jewish which nobody else wanted) Arab leaders encouraged Arabs to leave the territories, the West Bank and Gaza and Israel (Judea and Samara) but they refused to let them settle anywhere but the refugee camps (except for a few exceptions, like in Lebanon where there was a Christian majority)? Jews bought bought overpriced land for settlements often from an absentee owner who sold the land to the Jewish National Fund at 5 and 10 times its value? Some disputes arose later over title but what constituted title to land, a tenant farmer who has no fee simple or the absentee owner who acquired the land from the Ottoman government or inherited it from their family? The tenant farmer moral claim to the land if the farmer lived on the land for generations but there was no legally valid title. In many instances the Jews paid twice. they paid off these claims anyway and when tenant farmers heard that the Jews were paying them off, they often filed multiple claims, but many never lived there at all. They were bogus and not justifiable nor real claims. The Arabs (who call themselves "Palestinians") never occupied any area which was sovereign. There never has been a nation called Palestine. The cities where MOST of the Arabs live are autonomous because they have been granted that autonomy by the Israelis. Some of the land was only sparsely populated (both by Arabs and Jews). They want it A L L L L L L L L Many settlements are suburbs of major Israeli cities. MOST (70% of them) are the natural expansion and growth of Israeli cities but for the other settlements there have been offers to dismantle many of them and redraw the border for others and Arafat rejected the offers. It doesn't matter what the offers are; they are always rejected, before by Arafat and now by the new leadership because that is not what they want. The want it all. Judea and Samaria are west of the Jordan and these Arabs already had their civil war in Jordan and lost, had their civil war in Judea and Samaria against the Jews and lost, had their civil war in Lebanon and lost and want the international community to hand them land where Jews live and have always lived for thousands of years. MORE: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZioN/PLo.shtml
