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Balrog0 posted...

I just don't understand what you're trying to drive home.

Well for one, the above quote dispels the notions that the British just threw the Jews at the land and kicked out the Arabs.

Instead it shows that Jews already lived there and many immigrated with the approval of those people who later got kicked out.

Then it was the Jewish army who kicked them out of their land in response to an invasion force to defend themselves from being kicked out.
But yeah...they went really overboard:

urban Palestine was almost entirely extinguished.

So, no, him saying "the British took the land and kicked out the residents" is fallacious according to these facts unless I am missing something.

Rather, it is like if a southern USA city had tons of Latino immigrants coming and the people who were there before got upset about them taking control of the government, then the Latinos beat them in a war and kicked them off their land.

The point being both had a right to be there, but one decided there isn't enough room for both of us, tried to kick the others out and instead lost and they got kicked out.
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