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View Poll Results: Should Palestinians on Visas be sent home?
Yes - send home 75 59.06%
No - keep 46 36.22%
Unsure 6 4.72%
Voters: 127. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-10-2023, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Land of the Free
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When I witnessed those Palestinians cheering and yelling alahua akbar viewing a stripped and likely dead young woman like they did something just made me realize how different our cultures world views are.....I don't want to be around people with that mentality.
Precisely.
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Old 10-10-2023, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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When I witnessed those Palestinians cheering and yelling alahua akbar viewing a stripped and likely dead young woman like they did something just made me realize how different our cultures world views are.....I don't want to be around people with that mentality.
I agree 100%
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Old 10-10-2023, 07:45 AM
 
Location: Florida
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No, there is no law against taking a side, and they will claim free speech rights. We had such crowd here in Florida too, - one pro-Israel crowd and one pro-Palatine crowd shouting each other down.

If they are here on a visa, then they are not citizens and show be shown the door.
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Old 10-10-2023, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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The only thing wrong with us is not expecting people to come here and behave with a basic level of decency.
Exactly.

So sick and tired of these obnoxious people bringing their own b.s. to the United States.
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Old 10-10-2023, 08:37 AM
 
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Can we get rid of all the Israeli dual citizenship holders too? Including the ones that are in our Congress and own the million and billion dollar corporations that influence our politicians that don’t hold dual citizenships?
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Old 10-10-2023, 08:45 AM
 
Location: in a galaxy far far away
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When I witnessed those Palestinians cheering and yelling alahua akbar viewing a stripped and likely dead young woman like they did something just made me realize how different our cultures world views are.....I don't want to be around people with that mentality.
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I agree with this 100%

I dont think we should expel all people on Palestinian visa, but those who are cheering for Hamas should be put on terrorist watch list.
Ditto. It's certainly a different culture today from that of 9/11/01. Turns my stomach. For the first time, I feel like the U.S. is circling the drain and I'm not sure what we can do to stop it.
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Old 10-10-2023, 09:19 AM
 
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Okay, maybe someone should have asked if there was such a thing as a Palestinian Visa! What you think?

Immigrants in the US, obtain an American Visa - not a visa from their home country.

In order for Palestine to issue a passport, there would need to be a Palestinian State. Was there a two state solution? No!

Palestinians are an ethnic group from Palestine.

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In 1948 about half of prewar Palestine's Arab population – fled from their homes or were expelled by Zionist militias during the 1948 Palestine war.

The exodus was a central component of the fracturing, dispossession and displacement of Palestinian society in which between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed, village wells were poisoned in a biological warfare programme and properties were looted to prevent Palestinian refugees from returning.

The precise number of refugees, many of whom settled in refugee camps in neighboring states, is a matter of dispute but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (half of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.

Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented Arabs who had left from returning to their homes or claiming their property. They and many of their descendants remain refugees.

The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians as ethnic cleansing,

Nevertheless, the existence of the so-called Law of Return allowing for immigration and naturalization of any Jewish person and their family to Israel, while a Palestinian right of return has been denied, has been cited as an evidence for the charges of Apartheid against the State of Israel.

The status of the refugees, and in particular whether Israel will allow them the right to return to their homes, or compensate them, are key issues in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli government has systematically scoured Israeli archives to remove documents evidencing Israeli massacres of Palestinian villagers in 1947 and 1948 that led to the Palestinian exodus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_P...ion_and_flight

So Palestinians are an ethnic group - Palestinians can be Muslim, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Catholicism (Eastern and Western rites), Anglicanism, Lutheranism, other branches of Protestantism. There are 350 Samaritans who carry Palestinian identity cards and live in the West Bank.
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Old 10-10-2023, 09:21 AM
 
Location: East Lansing, MI
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I don't believe the USA recognizes the state of Palestine, officially, so how would someone have a "Palestinian visa"?
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Old 10-10-2023, 09:29 AM
 
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So if you want to expel Palestinians, AN ETHNICITY, then you would need to look at their passport issued by their country.

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It is estimated that more than 6 million Palestinians live in a global diaspora.

The countries outside the Palestinian territories with significant Palestinian populations are:

Jordan 3,240,000
Israel 1,650,000
Syria 630,000
Chile 500,000 (largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East).
Lebanon 402,582
Saudi Arabia 280,245
Egypt 270,245
United States 255,000 (the largest concentrations in Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles; History of Palestinians in Los Angeles).
Honduras 250,000
Guatemala est. 200,000
Mexico 120,000
Qatar 100,000
Germany 80,000
Kuwait 80,000
El Salvador 70,000
Brazil 59,000
Iraq 57,000
Yemen 55,000
Canada 50,975
Australia 45,000
Libya 44,000
Puerto Rico est. 30,000
Greece est. 30,000
United Kingdom 20,000
Peru 19,000
Denmark 15,000
Colombia 12,000
Japan est. 10,000
Paraguay 10,000
Netherlands 9,000
Sweden 7,000
Algeria 4,030
Austria 4,010
Norway 3,825

The rest of Latin America, India, Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia has fairly small Palestinian populations.

The majority of the estimated 100,000 Palestinians in the European Union (EU) are in the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

Outside the EU is Norway and Switzerland. Germany's capital Berlin has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Middle East with about 30,000-40,000 people of Palestinian origin residing in the city (~1% of the total population).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palest...lation_figures
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Old 10-10-2023, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Wouldn't you like to know?
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Yes. Can we also expel all the Democrats who support Hamas, which appears to be most of them?

Just expelling Democrats in general would make the US a better place.
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