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Kurai Tsuki
28th March 2004, 21:36
The of the leader of the Palestinian Hammas movement, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was assassinated on March 23, 2004 as he left the Islamic Association Mosque in Gaza City. Helicopters fired three missiles at him, killing him, his three bodyguards and seven civilians. Yassin was sixty six years old, blind, and was leaving the mosque in a wheelchair. Condemnation of the attack has came from many governments, except of course the United States.

When Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not actually being threatened by Israel’s army or bombing, they often have to deal with Israeli bulldozers destroying their homes without provocation. There are also settlers who try to enter Palestinian territory and build small villages, then act pretend the violence is unprovoked when they become the targets of militants. Some of these settlers will go so far as to suggest that Palestinians have no historical right to the land. Arabs were living on the land long before the Hebrews arrived in the area after their exodus. And when the Zionists first arrived on the ship, Exodus, in 1948 the area had a majority of Palestinians; the Zionists drove the Palestinians from their homes by deporting them, using violence and placing them into internment camps. When this information is considered it can be seen that the idea of the Palestinians not having a historical right to this territory is nothing short disinformation.

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28th March 2004, 22:03
If the purpose of that is to inform people about the situation, you might want to make it less biased.
Also, the Zionists and the jews were were flowing into Palestine during the early parts of the 1900s.


Just some thoughts :)

Blackberry
29th March 2004, 05:18
Sticky...no.

http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm

There is a suitable history that 'isn't biased', judging from an extremely quick skim.

Moving this to history forum.

Comrade BNS
30th March 2004, 05:31
If we are taking tit for tat here. (i thoroughly support the palestinian movement too btw) Neither the Palestinian arabs nor the Aramaic jews (both of who are semitic sharing a common lineage from the people of "Noah" and "job" (who we can assume are actual people, but possibly had different identities and names to those given in the torah)) were the first to inhabit Palestine. The first inhabitants were in fact the as'tun canaanites ( who have no traceable modern decendants).

Comrade BNS

Kurai Tsuki
25th April 2004, 03:15
I suppose I am in favour of the Palestinians. That is why I named the forum as such rather than the "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," or, "The Zionist Sticky."

My view on Palestine is a fairly historic one, I do not see why Palestinians should have to give up their own land just because the Jews have no historical land of their own. It's illogical to think that every race should have its own individual country, especially if they mean to establish it in land that is preoccupied by another people.