parsamone
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@SnK133588 @The_Fine_Whine @BenMFreeman If I convert to Judaism how do I have a connection the lane? As opposed to many Palestinians who descend from the Jews and Samaritans who converted to Christianity and later Islam
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Tonight is my last night in Glasgow.
It is where I was born. It is where I spent my childhood, where I became a Bar Mitzvah, and where much of my understanding of myself was formed.
Mostly because of my parents, Scotland has always been the constant. No matter where I happened to be living, whether London, Hong Kong, or elsewhere, there was always an assumption that Scotland would be there. It was the place I returned to when life became complicated, uncertain, or challenging. My parents were here. It was familiar. It was home.
Tomorrow, I leave the UK and make Aliyah to Israel.
Over the past few years, I have spent a great deal of time writing, researching, and speaking about Jewish identity, Jewish peoplehood, Jewish indigeneity, and Jewish self-determination. In many ways, that journey led me here. Not because I stopped being British, but because I came to understand more deeply what it means to be Jewish.
Tomorrow I will become an Israeli citizen. I leave with great love for the life my parents gave me here and excitement about the chapter that lies ahead.
Scotland will always be where I am from.
But tomorrow, I go home.
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Regardless, where do the exiled Palestinians fit into this narrative? Isn't that our history too? That we too hail from ancestors who were persecuted by the Romans? That we too were Jews, Canaanites, Christians and Muslims? What makes you suggest that we are NOT indigenous to Palestine or Israel?
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@The_Fine_Whine @BenMFreeman historically incorrect comment.
Palestine is a ROMAN COLONIAL NAME.
do you know what the name of the land
was 2000 years ago?
JUDEA.
the romans changed it to Syria Palestina
which is now known as Palestine
in order to erase the indigenous connection
jews have to the land.
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@darth7356 @BenMFreeman Why not? Israel already has millions of Arabs. Many Israelis speak Arabic, listen to Arabic music, eat Palestinian food. Why not allow refugees the chance to apply to go back? Why only limit it to Jews?
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@samalosara @ScottJenningsKY Do you get along with your Democratic coworkers?
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@ScottJenningsKY Weird. I expect to get fired if it ever comes out to my employer that I’m not a Democrat.
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Siri, can you show me the most divorced from reality person that ever lived?
Byron York@ByronYork
Former CBS correspondent Scott Pelley says he did not expect to be fired after his confrontation with new management. "Oh gosh, furthest thing from my mind. It hadn’t occurred to me...I just didn’t connect the dots." From NYT: nytimes.com/2026/06/07/mag…
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@golfpepe @ByronYork Who leads the woke movement? What power do they have?
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@ByronYork The Woke never seem to fully comprehend the impact of their actions.
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Former CBS correspondent Scott Pelley says he did not expect to be fired after his confrontation with new management. "Oh gosh, furthest thing from my mind. It hadn’t occurred to me...I just didn’t connect the dots." From NYT: nytimes.com/2026/06/07/mag…
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Numerous times is disingenuous at best and East Jerusalem was never really on the table. Regardless, do you think the current administration in Israel, which has been in power for over a decade now, has any interest in peace? FYI you should look up the Arab Peace Initiative, which Israel has repeatedly rejected, and which every single member of the Arab League ratified. Hamas even supported it.
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@Parsamone @BenMFreeman It has offered it numerous times in the past. Including with Jerusalem as a shared capital.
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@JGatawe @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman So you are saying that if they left for any other reason, that they should be allowed back? Because that would be incredible news!
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Actually nothing weird about it, The Arabs that left were following instructions from the invading Arab armies attacking Israel.
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@MiguelGrandeMW @catturd2 You're welcome! The Mos Eisley comparison hits hard. California's issues underscore why basic citizenship verification in the SAVE Act matters for election integrity – it's about confirming who’s eligible to vote.
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@JGatawe @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Weird, 80% of the Palestinian Arabs were driven out. Expelled. 2 million are the ones who were left behind. Interesting.
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Weird, over 2 million Arabs are Israeli citizens, never explelled.
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@NJul70 @BenMFreeman Fair enough. And you think that is possible? Do you think Israel would be open to recognizing a Palestinian state?
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@Parsamone @BenMFreeman I think they should have the right to return to a Palestinian state which exists in peaceful coexistence with Israel.
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Well let's see since you seem 100% void of reality and responsibility .... the "expelled Palestinains" went on to start a war in Egypt (lost and then rxprllld) Jordan started a war (lost and were expelled) went to Lebanon and genocided Christian's and Jews ... NO ONE WANTS YOU
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@brettbarnes83 @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman What modest partition plan are you referring to here? Was the Pelle commission "modest"? Was 1947 "modest"? Why not a binational state? Why reject that?
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Your village’s fate followed Arab-initiated hostilities; 20% of Israel’s Arabs stayed and became citizens.
“Binational state”? Arabs spurned even modest partition. “Terrorise indigenous”? Jews are indigenous; your side’s pogroms and invasions wrote the Nakba.
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Who said anything about demographic conquest? We never had to consider that. We were 75% of the population in 1940. The Yishuv however, obsessed over the fact that there were just so many Arabs and not enough Jews in Palestine. They understood that the only possible way Israel could exist as a Jewish state, was through territorial conquest and mass expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs. Even the partition plan on 1947 was seen as a stepping stone.
We never waged extermination. We didn't even have the means to do so if we did. We wanted our own country, Palestine. You were welcome to stay and live amongst us as citizens of Palestine. The Armenians did it, the Circassians and Bosniacs did it, the thousands of Eastern European Jews who came to Palestine in the 18th and 19th century did it. They all assimilated and became a part of the fabric of Palestine.
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman Israel’s Law of Return repatriates a persecuted people to their ancestral homeland. Thats not an open invitation to demographic conquest by those who rejected partition, waged extermination war, and lost.
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Perhaps, I'm not denying this view exists, especially now after the horrors in Gaza and Lebanon, but like most Israelis, most Palestinians just want to live in Peace and have the same rights as everyone else. Everyone from the river to the sea should have equal rights. Palestinians in the diaspora should have the same right to return as Jews currently do. Can we agree to this framework?
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@Parsamone @BenMFreeman I think Hamas and all the River to the sea folks would disagree. It’s never been about peace for them it’s about the destruction of the state of Israel and every Jewish person in it. There’s true genocidal intent. Ethnic cleansing is the whole point.
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Ok walk me through your logic. How were Palestinians in Lebanon who were *not expelled* able to go back? Could they apply to be Israeli citizens in 1948,49,50? Can they apply today? What's the process here? If a Jewish family from Oregon applies for Israeli citizenship, would they be able to get it? Because apparently you know something I don't.
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@Parsamone @HamermanNo11666 @BenMFreeman NO THEY WERR MOT EXPELLED THEY MIGHT HAVE TOLD YOU THAT BUT THAT WAS A LIE
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@JaVinUK @BenMFreeman Honestly I don't have a problem with it. Palestine has always been a land of immigrants going back centuries. What I do have a problem with, is my family being forced out and not being allowed to come back. Palestine was our home. We deserve to be there too.
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The Law of Return should extend to Palestinian families impacted by the Nakba. Simple.
The outcomes of a war do not diminish my right to protest and resist our expulsion. And no one is asking for retcons at this stage, just corrective history as has been done in many of the places you've listed.
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@Parsamone @BenMFreeman Nations are forged in blood. Borders are created by conflict. Which other colonial projects are you looking to retcon? Australia, New Zealand, The USA, Canada, Brazil. Should the UK be returned to the Saxons? Or just Israel - a place called Judea. The clue is in the name.
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@MoscoviciRachel @BenMFreeman What was the population makeup or Akko before 1948?
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@Parsamone @BenMFreeman No one expelled you. Akko is a mixed city of coexistence. Pathetic lies
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