Lisa,
It’s just as wrong if people are expelled due to someone else’s action on one’s behalf (e.g. British carving out the ME post-European oppression of jews) as it is when it is by one’s own actions. The bulldozing and kicking out of people from their land is not something that happened only after the mandate post-WWII, but STILL goes on (remember Rachel Corrie?). That’s not right according to Judaism (or any other religion for that matter). You can’t take someone else’s land and call it your own, even if the British did it for you. It’s not about borders it’s about who has kicked you out of your home. The Jordanian, Syrian, etc borders didn’t entail kicking out of people…those were formation of political boundaries; forming Israel on the other hand consisted of a transplant: take out the people who live there and move in people who didn’t.
Karen, why do you think we were able to live for so long in the ME w/ our Arab neighbors much more peacefully than in Europe (when Europeans were persecuting) then expelled from our homes around 1948 just as Israel was forming???
