Nonsense
Complete and utter nonsense! This is following the historic revisionism of the Eretz Israel crowd who have not bothered to actually include much fact in their analysis.
1. The Mizrahi were in very small numbers in Israel/Palestine from about 500 A.D. until 1880 when the Zionist movement began to gather steam and Jewish immigrants started to arrive in sizeable numbers.
2. The Palestinians are indeed a heterogenous people, but left out were those descended from Crusaders (but who cares about Christians), Philistines (particularily along the coast), and even Edomites, Moabites and Canaanites. And then there are the Samaritans, who were Jewish heretics and many of who converted to Islam. The real point is that the people in question have lived there for hundreds of years or even (depending on the family) for thousands of years.
3. Perhaps half of the land settled by Jews pre-1967 was purchased from its owners, but most were NOT bedouins but rather absentee Turks and Arabs who had Palestinian sharecroppers and feudal laborers on 'their' property. The rest of the land was mostly appropriated from the lands of Palestinians who fled from the Israelis in 1948 (and I won't get into a debate about why). Varying levels of compensation were paid (from reasonable to none), but the key part of this process was that the Palestinians were forbidden from reoccupying their property after the war.
4. Those Palestinians who were smart enough not to flee and who lived in the 1948 to 1956 borders of Israel were indeed made Israeli citizens, but it is amazing how difficult it is for such a citizen to serve in the IDF in a nation where service is usually compulsory (the one exception being the Druze, who have a cozy relationship with the Jewish majority). As badly as they are treated, I would argue the Copts in Egypt are better off than the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Complete and utter nonsense! This is following the historic revisionism of the Eretz Israel crowd who have not bothered to actually include much fact in their analysis.
1. The Mizrahi were in very small numbers in Israel/Palestine from about 500 A.D. until 1880 when the Zionist movement began to gather steam and Jewish immigrants started to arrive in sizeable numbers.
2. The Palestinians are indeed a heterogenous people, but left out were those descended from Crusaders (but who cares about Christians), Philistines (particularily along the coast), and even Edomites, Moabites and Canaanites. And then there are the Samaritans, who were Jewish heretics and many of who converted to Islam. The real point is that the people in question have lived there for hundreds of years or even (depending on the family) for thousands of years.
3. Perhaps half of the land settled by Jews pre-1967 was purchased from its owners, but most were NOT bedouins but rather absentee Turks and Arabs who had Palestinian sharecroppers and feudal laborers on 'their' property. The rest of the land was mostly appropriated from the lands of Palestinians who fled from the Israelis in 1948 (and I won't get into a debate about why). Varying levels of compensation were paid (from reasonable to none), but the key part of this process was that the Palestinians were forbidden from reoccupying their property after the war.
4. Those Palestinians who were smart enough not to flee and who lived in the 1948 to 1956 borders of Israel were indeed made Israeli citizens, but it is amazing how difficult it is for such a citizen to serve in the IDF in a nation where service is usually compulsory (the one exception being the Druze, who have a cozy relationship with the Jewish majority). As badly as they are treated, I would argue the Copts in Egypt are better off than the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
