Then let's do a title search on the real estate with an old parable:
“Sharon sits down with Arafat at the beginning of negotiations regarding the resolution of the conflict. Sharon requests that he be allowed to begin with a story. Arafat replies, “Of course.”
Sharon begins his story: “Years before the Israelites came to the Promised Land and settled here, Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. The Israelites began complaining that they were thirsty and, lo and behold, a miracle occurred and a stream appeared before them. They drank their fill and then decided to take advantage of the stream to do some bathing — including Moses. When Moses came out of the water, he found that all his clothing was missing.
“Who took my clothes?” Moses asked those around him.
“It was the Palestinians,” replied the Israelites — “
“Wait a minute,” objected Arafat immediately, “there were no Palestinians during the time of Moses!”
“All right,” replies Sharon, “Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s begin our negotiations.”
This is how to do a proper title search in real estate.
The inhabitants of Kibbutz Urim near Gaza, which miraculously escaped attack, and where my brother lived in 1979, didn’t steal anyone’s land. It was bought from absentee landlords in Constantinople and Cairo at up to 5x the market price.
BTW, from 1948-67 Gaza and the West Bank were ruled by Egypt and Jordan. Neither gave the inhabitants a state because they were Arabs who were no different from the rest of Egypt and Jordan. Nationality in the Arab world is a recent and artificial western import. What counts in the Arab world is clan, tribe and religion. The idea of "Palestinians" as separate from other Arabs was a tactical invention, as one of Arafat's right hand men, Zuher Mohsen, said in 1977:
Mohsen essentially followed the line of as-Sa'iqa's Syrian Ba'athist ideology, which interpreted the Palestinian question through a perspective of pan-Arab nationalism. In some respects this contravened the PLO charter, which affirmed the existence of a future Palestinian State.
Mohsen himself stated that there were "no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese", though Palestinian identity would be emphasised for political reasons. In a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw he stated that "between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons", representing the Ba'athist perceptive regarding the question of Palestine.[5]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen
Hamas agrees with Mohsen, as is clear in its charter: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/palestine-israel-slogan-demolition-and-1712e39e9c1d
The third map from the left in the article represents 22% of British mandatory Palestine. The Arabs got 78%.
That we're all paying much more attention to Gaza than Zaporizhia tells you who gains most from this conflict: Putin, the biggest member of the Axis of Extermination--Russia, Iran, Hamas-- that Mr. Dunn supports with such enthusiasm. Perhaps he'd like to join the next "gas the Jews" pro-Hamas rally at the Sydney Opera house.
Dunn is a perfect illustration of this phenomenon Simon Schama wrote about in the Financial Times:
"Sympathy, for the moment, abounds, for as the writer Dara Horn pointed out in the title of her unsparing book of essays, People Love Dead Jews; living ones, especially should we have the temerity to defend ourselves, not so much."
