The Otiose Otway just cannot stop raving.
"A couple of generations ago there was 300,000 Palestinians in the Jordan valley, today there are around 56,000" Note no evidence given for the figure of "300,000" and nor does the spreader of this libel mention that a good number of Arabs who formerly lived in Judea and samaria have of their own volition gone to live outside the Middle East (a sizeable number in the US) and in other countries in the Middle East, without which context the whole premise and libel of "ethnic cleansing" falls by the wayside. However it is a fact that a couple of generations ago there were about twice as many Jews living in the UK as there are now. Without context one could also claim that Britain ethnically cleansed them.
Here Otiose is in fixated mode. “I hate to interrupt Jose's long lonely weekend talking to himself” – unfortunately for him the otiose Otway has a fixation about someone called Jose for which he should seek help. For the record I have never posted on this site under any other name but don’t let that stop Otiose's rants it makes it crystal how much store one can hold by anything else he posts.
“ but... It is true that the vast majority of Palestinian children grow up hating Jews but it's not primarily an indoctrination thing”
- The truth however is much different in the words of Hilary Clinton talking about Palestinian School books: "These textbooks do not give Palestinian children an education; they give them an indoctrination,” Clinton said during a press conference on Capitol Hill in 2007. “This propaganda is dangerous. You know, words really matter…Because in idealizing for children a world without Israel, children are taught never to accept the reality of the State of Israel, never to strive for a better future that would hold out the promise of peace and security to them, and is basically a message of pessimism and fatalism that undermines the possibility for these children living lives of fulfilment and productivity.”
And as for Otiose's outrageous claim about Judea and Samaria the Jews cannot steal what legally morally and historically belongs to them and always has done. For example Herod built the tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron not some "Palestinian", Islam had not yet even been founded when Herod built it. There never was a Palestinian people until the arch terrorist Arafat set up the PLO terrorist organisation and they certainly never had sovereignty over Judea and Samaria but Otiose don’t let facts get in the way of your propagating mythology.
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