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Spider Jerusalem

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5. Oh, what bullshit
Thu Jan 5, 2017, 11:45 PM
Jan 2017

"must declare that the Jewish people and the State of Israel have a historical, legal and emotional right to the entire land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River"

Um, no. You don't have a right to land because your ancestors lived there two thousand years ago. (And not all the occupants of ancient Israel/Judaea were part of the diaspora. A significant number remained, converting first to Christianity, under the Romans, and later to Islam. The descendants of those people are called "Palestinians". What of their "historical, legal and emotional rights"?)

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