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In reply to the discussion: Breaking - the US has called for an immediate cease fire in Gaza [View all]CincyDem
(6,416 posts)To be clear, what I was saying is that Palestinians who are overwhelmingly Muslim seem to be unwelcome in other countries that are overwhelmingly Muslim. I highlighted Egypt and Saudi specifically because they are, like Palestinians, overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.
In response, you asked if I blame the Jewish people when no one wanted them in their own countries. Prior to 1948, the high water mark for Jewish populations was 1938 in Europe, when Jews represented just under 2%, a percentage reduced to just over 0.5% by 1946. So I think your real question is if I blame the Jewish people for their refugee status when no overwhelmingly non-Jewish populations wanted them in their countries.
And youre right
the answer is of course not but thats not an applicable comparison.
Jews have been the nomadic others for millennium since Cyrus the Great conquered Judes hundreds of years BC. Be it the Germans in WWII, the Russians & Turks in WWI, or Rome during the Spanish Inqusition
Jews have been blamed for everything from the Plague to Infant Death to taking the sun away during solar eclipses. And that doesnt even include the whole Good Friday revisionist history thing.So its easy for the 98% to lay societal blames at the feet of the most visible minority, independent of any truth. And its the same today with Republicans and immigrants (the generic other).
My point was that there are countries that are 95% plus Sunni Muslim and instead of reaching out to other Sunni Muslims in great pain (not just recently but for 75+ years)
instead of giving them a sanctuary, theyre building taller/thicker/longer walls to keep them out. Dont believe me? Look at Egypts wall along southern Gaza
puts any prison wall built by Israel to shame.
They dont have no where to go
they have many places to go who will not tolerate their terrorist activites. In fact, as I said, they had somewhere to go in 1948 and the precedents of todays Gaza residents said Nope - our commitment to kill Jews is stronger than I desired to life comfortably in peace. And its been that way ever since.