Comparing Palestinian and Armenian causes

Originally posted by strategos Originally posted by kotumeyil On the other hand, in the case of Palestine, a totally alien people came and took the land depending on the idea that it was the promised land since some thousand years ago. . there not totally alien, because there was still a substantial amount of jews in the area before it became a full jewish state of Israel.

the number was 15 000 orthodox jews that is not by any standard substantian - there were over 700 000 christian and muslim arabs in palestine - this is all at the beginning of the first immigration movements after the first world war.