Oh, it’s like tonguing a sore tooth!
Yes, what with all those wars of extermination they forced their neighbors to declare upon them, and all those offers for peace they forced their neighbors to reject in favor of continued calls for genocide. And especially what with them forcing Haj Amin al-Husseini to ally with Hitler and help design and implement the Final Solution.
Obviously, it is simply all Israel’s fault.
But your argument is obviously wise and without holes, as it is clear to anybody that, as you put it, the act of existing causes violence, not others attacking you. So congrats on that.
Let’s take this claim by claim, shall we?
There were limited examples of villages being moved or removed, largely for strategic military reasons like during the attempted genocide of the Jews of Jerusalem and the creation of Plan D. The issues are certainly not simple, and definitely merit a negotiated settlement with proper reimbursement, but to even suggest that it was a true campaign of ethnic cleansing is ignorant at best.
There was simply no attempt at genocide perpetrated by Israel, ever. You’ve invented that. And, unsurprisingly, ignored the actual numerous attempts at genocide carried out by groups as diverse as the original Palestinian-Nazi alliance and later Arab regimes.
The occupation only happened as a result of the Six Day War, a war which the Arab nations started in order to, yep, commit genocide. Immediately upon winning it, Israel offered to return land for peace. It was met with the Three Noes. Israel has, numerous offered to return the West Bank and Gaza for peace. Arafat responded to one of those offers by deliberately unleashing another “intifada”.
It’s also worth noting that your claim of oppression of the “original population” is almost entirely mythical, as even the UNRWA classifies as “Palestinian” anybody who simply happened to live in the area as little as two years before the creation of the state of Israel. The immigration of numerous Jews to the land dramatically increased the standard of living of everybody in the area and, in turn, led to massive Arab immigration.
And that’s not even getting into the Turkish categories of land ownership.
Nor, interestingly enough, do you mention that in and slightly after '48, virtually every Arab nation did commit actual ethnic cleansing and many remain apartheid states which are totally judenrein to this day. The number of Jews who were expelled and/or left for their own safety is, ironically enough, virtually identical to the number of Palestinian refugees who were expelled, left due to war or left because the Arab leaders told them to.
Funny that you couldn’t spare a single word to talk about their rights to compensation…
Ahhhh, could that be… “The Zionist Entity!”
Funny, I always figured that a sovereign nation with its own language, currency, culture and a seat at the UN could probably be called a nation, but I guess not. You have shown me the light.
On that note…
You don’t happen to know Becky01, do ya?
Oh, and:
No, I doubt that. Most of them at the very least know a tiny bit about the history of the region. And not many of them would be happy with the destruction of the country.
Although, of course, I suppose we can try to parse ignorance based hatred of a nation from ignorance based hatred of a people. I don’t much feel the need, myself.
