"Who started that conflict in 1948, then, after the Israelis had agreed to the UN Partition Plan?"
How many times do we have to go through this
A plan that was foisted on both sides and satisfactory to neither was foisted on the legitimate occupants of Palestine by a Britain anxious to rid itself of a problem of history - as with Ireland, the result was permanent warfare.
Whatever the politicians of all sides did in 1948 - the end result was as the figures described.
Continuing military expansionist aggression aimed at creating a mono-cultural state is adding to those numbers daily.
To suggest that those people have no right to their former homeland is equivalent to claiming that those who were defeated in any war you care to mention had no right to return to theirs.
When will you people get it into your heads that this is about the suffering of impoverished human beings and not about 70 year old bits of paper drawn up by politicians - or is might always right?
"Come on" indeed.
Can I recommend another film 'When I Saw You" - set in one of the Palestinian refugees camps?
It depicts the conditions of refugees forced into tent towns in the desert, some having existed there for over twenty years, by Israeli military aggression
Jim Carroll