ancestral lands

Submitted by yuval brandstetter MD (Israel), Apr 11, 2006 at 10:57

That is exactly the point. There are no Arab ancestral lands in the Land of Judea. There is the Arab conquest of the seventh century, a Kurdish victory over the Crusaders, and a long line of conquests, none of which were Arabs. The great majority of land in the West Bank (areas conquered by the Arab Legion in 1948) are crown lands, that is, were never owned by Arabs. Israel, being the inheritor of the Ottoman-British-Jordanian- line, has erected Jewish habitations in concordance with the San Remo treaty, to which all Western powers and the representative of the Arab Umma, signed on.

The notion of ancerstral lands from times immemorial is a well-orchestrated lie, and the more oft it is repeated, it is believed.

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