Originally posted by victot
... the jews purchased pieces of land of palestein, at very, very high prices... by 1946 they had purchased a total of 6% of the land... Right. The Arabs willingly sold their swamp-land at exorbitant prices to Jews, figuring that the land was worthless. Of course, Jewish ingenuity and hard work at draining the swamps by planting Eucalyptus trees proved otherwise.

But still, as Arab propaganda goes, all land was "stolen," you see, because actual facts like the land being legally sold to Jews, just stands in the way of Arab self-delusion.

buy them out!
 

Originally posted by takeo
I have read here some people who suggested that the "arabs" could be bought out of the occupied territories, this reminds me (again) of WWII. I really don't understand the connection between a real-estate deal and between Nazism. IMHO, there is no connection whatsoever.

It's like saying that if someone spends money at a hot dog stand and pays cash for a hot dog and a Coke, then it reminds you of Hitler paying BMW for the gas chamber engines, because cash changed hands in both cases.

the Haavara-agreements are another evidence that etnic-centered and nationalistic zionism and nazism had a lot in common.

it was stolen and taken away from the original people who owned it for centuries.

You're 100% wrong takeo.

the connection is that etnic cleansing don't necessarily has to happen trough to violence (but that is Negev's favorite) but can as well be established trough economic means, as both the nazi's and the zionists understood in the 30's.
The problem is that, according to polls in palestinian refugee-camps in Libanon, only a small minority would accept money in return for their stolen land. And i'm sure even a smaller minority in westbank or Gaza.