The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Yeah, that place out 'there'. Anything not really Cambodia related should go here.
User avatar
cptrelentless
Expatriate
Posts: 3033
Joined: Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:49 am
Reputation: 565
Location: Sihanoukville
Korea North

Re: The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Post by cptrelentless »

vladimir wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:29 pm
cptrelentless wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:48 pm Wikipedia says Wadi al-Hawarith wasn't depopulated until the Arab war. It also says the 2/3rds of the land was unculivatable. Judging by this article by I would assume a muslim chap http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... ode=fmes20 it would seem that both parties were in dispute. Jewish colonists did actually buy the land they settled during the mandate, the landlords all lived in Syria, which was French and the jews settled on land that was considered marginal, like the above. It's only through intensive farming practises, like their kibbutz thing, that the land went from marginal to fertile. But on the whole the British had quotas in place for jews and spent the majority of the time sending them back to France where they came from.
The fertility of the land is irrelevant and a strawman argument.

If someone steals your truck and uses it more profitably (after they get $1 mn A DAY from a the US govt), does that justify the theft?

Likewise, buying stolen goods is also a criminal act in most civilised countries, and does not give rise to legal title.

And the whole concept of ancient claim being the supreme justification? OK, time to give it all back to Africa, where DNA science, not some nutty religion, proves ownership.
They (THEM) bought it with cash from the land owners during the mandate. There is no straw man. The Arabs who owned the land mostly lived the other side of the border and it was shit land they were getting crappy rents on, so they were happy to take the jews' money and have their glorious Arab empire afterwards and then kick the jews out. I'm not talking manifest destiny or the fact that the Israelites are genetically identical to the Canaanites, so much so that they are most likely them and the bit in the bible where they fought them is horseshit - apart from the fact that the walls of Jericho did fall down, but due to a massive earthquake - just short term cash deals blowing up in people's faces. It was after the war that land got stolen.
User avatar
vladimir
The Pun-isher
Posts: 6077
Joined: Mon May 12, 2014 6:51 pm
Reputation: 185
Location: The Kremlin
Russia

Re: The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Post by vladimir »

I'm not going to debate this with you a la 440. The article states historical fact. You can try and spin that if you like, but theft is theft, end of.

No amount of spin-doctoring is going to make BS marketing, theft, and murder of civilians sanitary.
Jesus loves you...Mexico is great, right? ;)
User avatar
AndyKK
Expatriate
Posts: 6448
Joined: Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:32 am
Reputation: 2248
Great Britain

Re: The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Post by AndyKK »

Banksy’s new artwork unveiled, satirizing the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
Image

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.2987841
Always "hope" but never "expect".
User avatar
vladimir
The Pun-isher
Posts: 6077
Joined: Mon May 12, 2014 6:51 pm
Reputation: 185
Location: The Kremlin
Russia

Re: The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Post by vladimir »

Haha, the Walled Off Hotel, loved the pillow-fight!

Thanks for that!
Jesus loves you...Mexico is great, right? ;)
User avatar
AndyKK
Expatriate
Posts: 6448
Joined: Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:32 am
Reputation: 2248
Great Britain

Re: The Balfour Agreement 100 shirty years on

Post by AndyKK »

Theresa May under pressure to sack Priti Patel after details of more Israel meetings emerge
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/t ... spartandhp
Always "hope" but never "expect".
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Art, John Bingham, Ozinasia, Spigzy, xandreu and 507 guests