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Benny Morris- Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba

  • No policy to expel 700k in Nakba

  • Half of British Palestine Mandate borders was waste land (Negev)

    • Populate area was North of Bershka to Lebanon
      • Some marsh land in Coast and hill area not all great
      • 450k Arab, 20-30k Jews (1881)
      • Today, 7-8 million people
      • Wasn’t crowded and wasn’t empty

  • 70k Jews expelled, 10%+ which is a significant number

  • 700-800k pushed out of Islamic countries

    • No longer remained refugees like the Palestinians

  • Zionism

    • 2000 years of exile
      • Talked about returning to Israel
    • Romans conquered, expelled
    • Some converted to Islam those that were left
    • Most Jews were in the diaspora by the end of 1st millennium
    • End of 19th century: Growth of nationalism
      • Not wanting to be occupied
      • Lot of xenophobia between the groups and breed a lot of anti-semitism
      • Pogroms
      • Motivated Zionism more and culminated with the Holocaust
    • Preached returning where Judaism and Jews were born

  • Hamas and Fatah don’t want two state solution

    • Hamas never mentions it
    • Fatah never accepts it

  • Arabs conquered in the 7th century; why is it bad for Jewish conquest?

  • Up to the 19th century, the Arabs called the land “jews land”—accepted that and said that listen its filled with Arabs now so no space for Jews

  • Gaza under a siege by 3 sides by Israel since 2007

    • Due to Hamas staging point for rocket attacks
      • Before 2007
    • If you don’t rocket your neighbors; you won’t be under siege
    • Rocket attacks might not killed every time; but thats what terror is about. Being in fear and terror with 10 seconds to run to a bunker
    • Get a story about civilians under mortar attacks and ask somebody if that would terrify them and then explain that its the same in Israel

  • Arabs don’t have self-criticism

    • Can be killed for saying things against P.
    • They don’t have a state so their more inclined to not give ammunition to the other side against their own wishes

  • Genocide

    • Nonsense
    • What happened to the Armenians
    • What happened in the Holocaust

  • Apartheid State

    • Pre-1967 borders; Not apartheid state
    • West Bank
      • Kind of Apartheid
      • Different system of justice
      • Settlers; opposed
      • Arab, Jew travel
      • Based on national conflict not race