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Kamiya has it 100% backwards. The real indigenous people in the land of Israel are the Jews not the Muslims. The Muslim crusades took over the middle east centuries ago, the Jews were just returning to what was taken from them. Anywhere you dig in Israel, you will find ruins of Jewish Temples. Jerusalem is mentioned over 600 times in the old Testament, and never in the Koran.
The Arabs know this, though the willfully ignorant Kamiya does not, this is why the Arabs systematically destroyed centuries old synagogues in Jerusalem when Jordan ruled the city from 1948-67.
Doesn't Kamiya get tired of writing this same article? Like most of his twisted analogies, this one comes up lame. It isn't the Israelis who have forced the Palestinians to live in camps for 60 years, it is the Arabs. In 1948 there were over 40 million refugees from world wide conflicts including China, Pakistan/India, WWII and the Arab's failed attempt to destroy Israel at its UN sponsored birth (including 1 million Jews evicted from Arab lands). Only the 700,000 Palestinian war refugees and their many decendents have never been resettled in any of the 22 Arab dictatorships comprising 99+% of the land in the middle east.
A real journalist, instead of a flak for Arab dictators would ask the Arab world 'what kind of people are you to keep people locked in refugee camps for 60 years'. Alas Kamiya isn't a real journalist. Just an apologist for the people who launch rockets at civilians while hiding behind women and children.
