I don't want anyone forced out and I gave the history to provide context of why the Palestinians refugees should be allowed to return. In fact, of all the solutions, including the unworkable two-state solution, mine is the only one that doesn't make anyone leave their homes -- Jews or Arabs.
It is not acceptable to the stronger party and hence not workable.
Palestinians will need to get used to the two state solution. Demanding too much may result in getting too less.
Arafat was getting a state and 97% of his demands. He could have accepted it and much misery and pain could have been avoided.
Well, you won't get any apologies because there is no one today responsible for whatever happened centuries ago. Do you honestly think the Arabs are waiting for an apology from the Mongols, or the Germans and Brits from the Italians (Romans)?
I know that already.
We have moved on. Just like the Germans and Brits are proudly Christian and don't really hold a grudge against whatever invaders brought Christianity to their shores. The names of ancient invaders are commonplace in Britain and Germany.
I don't think so.
As long as you keep demanding an apology for centuries old events, you are holding the present hostage to the ancient past.
It is a debate here. India has not demanded any apology from anyone.
We are not holding anything hostage. As I said, for me it is about not letting that barbarism repeat and make a glass bowl of anyone who tries it again.
A thorough glass bowl!
The idea of an Islamic Caliphate similar to the Zionists' dream of reestablishing ancient Israel. Both groups should not be allowed to displace or damage people currently living on the land.
OK.
So does the Akhand Bharat crowd. People can dream. It's not going to happen.
But that crowd is not coveting Arabia! It is more analogous to you wanting to evict Israelis from Palestine.
It's a poll about Muslims in general. There is evidence, from Indians, that innocent Indian Muslims get rounded up every time there is a terrorism scare, even if the culprits later turned out to be Hindu.
Don't you just love India and Indian Muslims!
I can bring up any number of polls that show Israel is one of the most distrusted countries on the planet. The point of these polls is not to justify anything, but to dispel your claim that most people in the world approve of Israel (per the diplomatic relations graphic you showed). Most governments have (cursory) relations with Israel, mostly so they don't appear anti-semitic, but most actual people believe Israel is the cause of trouble.
Try a poll data for Pakistan. USA. Any country.
Most people are not so anti Israeli as you think (except may be most Muslim). Every country may have its detractors but the vast majority of the world keeps relations with them as they do with many Arab and Islamic countries they may not like.
They may have been mainstream long time ago, but are now used only by extremists on both sides.
I see them used quite often by your religious scholars and also posters here. Even today.
Simple math. Let's say that Muslims represented 10% of the population in the Hindu-majority states and vice versa.
For Pakitan with population 30 million, 10% is 3 million.
For India with population 300 million, 10% is 30 million.
So, if each country loses 3 million as refugees, Paksitan will lose most of the Hindus, while India will still retain 27 million Muslims.
You guys keep on repeating the same thing!
It would mean that India didn't indulge in ethnic cleansing to the same extent as Pakistan. Too hard to understand this?
Again, the situation is not analogous. In the subcontinent, both Hindus and Muslims had agreed to separate. There was no such agreement by the Palestinians. They were simply forced out of their houses by Jewish terror groups. This is not propaganda; the chief of the Haganah himself admits it and modern Israeli historians agree.
Not as simple. Ethnic cleansing was not agreed to.
Of course, but we are not holding people in refugee camps against their will to this day. That is the point.
Already replied in an earlier post.
Not good enough. We are not talking about restricting new immigration -- every country has the right to form whatever policies.
These are people who were forced out of their homes by Jewish terror groups to create this Jewish character in the first place.
Like there were people forced out from Pakistan to maintain its 97% Muslim character. More people forced out to make it more Muslim than Israel is Jewish!
They were relatively humane in the context of their times. The standard fare was to decimate your victims; the Muslims instead levied a tax on them, like Romans did.
Now if I expand on this "humane" business, will you accuse me of Islamophobia again?
Either don't make such claims. Or be ready for rebuttal with facts.
Already explained above the situation in Britain and Germany. People move on.
Not you. At least not the vast majority of you.
Many of you want to go back to the 7th century, not forward.
Exactly. If someone is justifting their hatred of apartheid, you will bring in black crimes elsewhere?
What's the point, other than to justify apartheid?
I have explained this already. I have not justified anything. I don't need to.
No other countries, Islamic or otherwise, have such refugee camps except Israel and Sudan.
Which refugee camps in Israel are you talking of?
We are not talking historical, but current, events. Nothing else compares in the current world. Sanctimony justified.
You mention this not for Israel but for even India and Western countries.
Sanctimony rejected!
The events of early 20th century were to give context of why the current refugees deserve to return.
I know that. But you won't agree for the same for Pakistan. Would you?
Different times; different standards of conduct. Unfortunate but that's the story of the world. Whatever happened in the past was not pretty, but that was standard fare across the world at the time.
I can expose this as well. I don't care if you accuse me of Islamophobia for that.
Tell me, was what happened "final and perfect" or not? Did the "but shikan par excellence" do the right thing? Were the kaffir genocides by Mahmud Gazani, Timur Lane and Nadir Shah wrong?
Why? They were all justified using Islam!
This is not about Sudan. I brought it in as another case, although I am pretty sure we are not supplying weapons and training to the government militias.
OK. No point in laboring over it.
I didn't open the thread about Isreal.
You brought Islam into it.
The point is it shouldn't have come to that in the first place.
As the Islamic invaders had no business coming in India or anywhere outside their desert.
Regarding the part about Israel kicking Pakistan'as $, I was being sarcastic. There is even a crazy icon next to it. Meaning "yeah right".
So that would mean Israel couldn't be the reason for India kicking out the intruders.
You can believe me or not. I am not the least bit jealous. Trust me.
I do. Not.