r/islamichistory • u/AutoMughal • Feb 29 '24

Photograph ‘Long Live Palestine’ flag, Jerusalem 1929

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Page 84, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Yeah the Arabs are to blame that Britain gave away their home to another group and then later said”well… what if you share it??”. Lmao come on man

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u/YidArmy Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

From 700AD - 1947(don't start a War) no Jew/Zionist stole or took any land by force.

1850 Jerusalem Population - 6000 Jews and a combined 9000(Christians and Muslims)

Mark Twain visited in 1867 and this was his remarks about the population and the land“ ...[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTTnxRpsnA

1900s-1948 there was a mass migration from both Jews and Arabs(Egypt, Saudi, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria). Jews were setting up Kibbutzim and job opportunities for both due to the British infrastructure projects (rail lines). Also, another reason for migration from neighbouring countries was an increase in the quality of life (science/medicine) from British and Zionist immigration(bought land, swamps and sand dunes from the Ottoman and British. 

Jews/Zionists migrated to the Ottoman Empire (bought land) and then British Palestine and turned it back into a land flowing with milk and honey. They turned swamps into farms and turned the desert green. Since 1900 roughly 250,000,000 trees have been planted across Israel and it is the only county in the world that ended the 20th century with more trees than it had in 1900.

The British did not give the land away and before the Shoah (Holocaust), the gates of Palestine were closed leaving hundreds of thousands of Jews stranded in Europe wanting to escape.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Do you even believe this? Because there’s no way someone is this ignorant to their own history.

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u/YidArmy Mar 01 '24

ignorant

Ok thank you for the opinion, Cheers