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The biggest lie about Israel: “The Jews stole the land.”

Here’s the documented truth that destroys that propaganda. 

Please read all of it and share as it is so important that the truth is out there.

From the late 1800s, Jews didn’t arrive as conquerors. They returned to their ancient homeland through legal land purchases under Ottoman and British rule, paying real money for real deeds from willing Arab sellers. 

Zionist organizations and private buyers negotiated with Arab landowners (many absentee landlords in Beirut, Damascus, Cairo). They paid premium prices, often many times the market rate, and turned malaria-ridden swamps and wasteland into productive farms and orange groves. 

4/ Hundreds of thousands of pounds changed hands legally. British Mandate records from the 1930s document the transactions. Arab sellers profited handsomely. No armies. No forced evictions in those early decades. 

5/ Even the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who was the fiercest opponent of Jewish settlement, couldn’t stop his own family from selling land to Jews. His father, relatives, and other prominent Arab families did the same while he publicly raged against it. 

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6/ Dozens of leading Arab figures sold land. Public opposition never stopped private profit. The transactions were voluntary, recorded, taxed, and recognized by the authorities of the day. 

7/ Jewish buyers drained swamps, built roads, introduced modern agriculture, created jobs, and raised living standards. Arab population in areas of Jewish settlement grew during the Mandate years because of the economic boom. 

8/ The core Jewish towns, kibbutzim, and cities that formed Israel stood on land that had been bought and paid for decades earlier. The 1948 war and displacement came later, but the foundation was legal acquisition and hard work. 

9/ Jews did not steal the land. Not any of it. They bought it, often at inflated prices, from Arabs who chose to sell. The deeds exist. The money was paid. The records are clear. 

10/ This is the factual foundation of the Jewish return to their homeland.

The propaganda says “stolen.” The documents say “purchased and developed.”

Share this thread if you want the truth to cut through the lies. 

my partner (Jewish) and I (supportive goy atheist) have made a new friend (Arab Muslim), and we obviously have some different beliefs and opinions but also a lot of shared values, so the friendship has been strong thus far.

there are some instances where we have to bite our tongues, in regard to the I/P conflict mainly, though we are starting to push back in small ways such as, yes Hamas is an armed terrorist group, most Jews/Israelis don't support the government's actions, etc. this all came to a head last night when we made the *very* controversial statement: Jews are indigenous to the Levant.

I'm shocked at how she was unwilling to accept that, she became stubborn, defaulted to her mother's opinion, and started asserting that all Jewish prophets/architecture/holy sites are actually Islamic, and not Jewish, since they were sent/built/assigned by G-d. this, naturally, extends her opinion to that of modern day Jews being totally genetically unrelated to the ancient Israelites. blatant erasure and rewriting of Jewish history, centring Islam even though the Quran is demonstrably younger than the Tanakh. my partner understandably lashed out as their cultural ancestry was being disrespected. we tried to explain that there's a difference between respecting others' beliefs, vs one's beliefs directly erasing an entire group's existence from history, but she kept falling back on "history is written by the victors, we have no real way of knowing anything given that we didn't live back then".

In essence, according to that doctrine, all of the Biblical peoples, sites, and narratives were actually Arab Muslims, but then the Jewish leaders/scribes/people/rabbis/etc got their hands on the texts and maliciously edited them for... reasons. And since this malicious editing meant that the word of god was being hoarded by the Jews, that then required Allah to send additional prophets (Jesus and then, when he "failed", Mohammad) to "correct" things back to where they "should" have been.

It's also the basis for a number of other really nasty bits of Islamic antisemitism--for example, apparently the Jewish tribes in Arabia were not there because of the Diaspora, but that they had moved there in anticipation of another divine prophet to fight against, and when they met Mohammad, they recognized him as their anticipated and intended enemy. (And I'm not exaggerating--that's literally what's taught by Islamists; it's given pretty much verbatim in this video at the ten minute mark). In terms of implications, just think of what that little narrative means--that all Jews, or at least Jewish leadership, knows the "truth" (that Islam is the actual origin and belief system) rejects it out of sheer contrariness, and work conspiratorially to keep it buried.

When that's what is taught to the average, well-meaning Muslim, like your associate, about Jewish history, identity, and culture...

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Marine le Pen.

"A fifth of the Polish population had been killed, the vast majority being civilians. Of those deaths, 3 million were Polish Jews, which accounted for 90% of the country's Jewish population" 90%. 90% of Poland's Jews were murdered, and today people who call themselves leftists say "go back to Poland"

they don't understand the real horrors of the Holocaust and how vast it was. they don't get it. they don't care about us at all.