Sand wrote:
I see. So if you and your family were born and raised in that area and been there for perhaps a century or so that only indicates you were transients if your forebears had not been there for 3000 years.
The international community and the UN which u value as supremes when it fits your agenda decided that Jews and Arabs should share the land of Israel,
Bullies,as most of us geeks knows too well, don't like to share and doesn't respect coexistence ,and the rest is history .
My father (along with his friends) bought a malaria infested marsh land from a Lebanese land owner and built a kibbutz,A Marxist commune fueled by the highest ideals of it's time,
My father family was genocided but he believed in peace and coexistence and for a few years the Arab neighbors (a Syrian village) were very happy to have someone around in what was then very desolate and backwards place and i still have picture of them dancing at the kibbutz wedding and pictures of the Kibutzniks helping them raise some structures or plow the fileds,
It all changed one day when backed up by Syria the peaceful village try to run the Kibbutz over,
They lost and fled away never to be seen again,
That the local history of the place where i was born,
As far as i know most Arabs choose to stay and i don't see them as different from me in any way nor does the law of the country,
I have a daily contact with them,
My bank manager is an Arab and so is my doctor and pharmacist,
Every morning for the last 20 years i eat breakfast at the Arab village near by
I'm good friend with the owner(he get my autism and he respect me as much as i respect him)
i do not see him or his friends as transient.
Anyway for me this is all battles of yesterday,
Owning a land doesn't mean a thing for me,
The land belongs to God or Alla,
we are all transient,
all we can and need to do is be honest and nice to each other as best as we could and i'm nice to people who are nice to me,
The people from the Arab village near by are very nice to me,
Since i'm a nerd i help them with computers problems,installing and teaching application and games, just as i do with my Jewish neighbors
Actually at the risk of sounding a bit racist i prefer the Arabs to the Israelis as most of the time they are more honest,nice and interesting to me/
At least the ones i know from the village near by are and so is my friend from Gaza,
Why am i telling this ?
to try and paint a little slice of reality of life in Israel, sometimes a picture of ordinary life means much more than the endless digging into documents and laws and all this crap/