The Peel Commission Report of 1937 stated: “The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.” (….) “The Arab population shows a remarkable increase since 1920, and it has had some share in the increased prosperity of Palestine. Many Arab landowners have benefited from the sale of land and the profitable investment of the purchase money. The fellaheen are better off on the whole than they were in 1920. This Arab progress has been partly due to the import of Jewish capital into Palestine and other factors associated with the growth of the National Home. In particular, the Arabs have benefited from social services which could not have been provided on the existing scale without the revenue obtained from the Jews.”................. .....................Robert F. Kennedy, brother of US President John F. Kennedy, who in 1948 was a reporter for the Boston Globe, was sent in the spring of 1948 to the British Mandate, to cover the political scenario at the time. Among his insightful dispatches, the most prominent one included a now world-famous quote: “The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944, came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in existence.”................“Why do Jews get a right to return to Israel, but Israel’s Arab citizens don’t?” The answer to the question is best answered with a question: Why don’t the Netherlands, Spain, Germany or France allow their minority North African, Turkish or Pakistani/Bangladeshi populaces an automatic right of return, while the ethnic Dutch, Spanish, German and French living in the diaspora are accorded one? The Netherlands, Spain, Germany and France are the nation states of the Dutch, the Spanish, and the French people. These nations have an ethnic majority and are nation states built on that ethnic identity, with a right of return for ONLY the majority, where minorities are given FULL civil-rights. This is precisely the case with Israel. It is the nation-state of the Jewish ethnicity. It’s a completely secular state, with no official religion, where its Arab minority is given FULL rights as the majority, while extending the right-of-return ONLY to the ethnic majority. So why is Israel singled out among SO MANY European nation states for not instituting a right of return for its minority?
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:00:15 +0000
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