…than the descendants of those who stayed in the land, converted to Islam, assimilated to Arab culture (while maintaining their own local traditions), and whose families continued to live there and work the land for centuries. (2/2)
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And to be clear, as I’ve said elsewhere in these comments, there’s nothing wrong with Jews wanting to move to Palestine.
It’s expelling the locals (their very distant cousins) and setting up their an ethnostate that is a major problem.
Because there’s an important difference between massacres being committed on both sides, and one side seeking to establish a colonial ethnostate while the other seeks one democratic state with civil rights and protections for minority groups, which was what the Palestinians requested in 1947.
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It’s expelling the locals (their very distant cousins) and setting up their an ethnostate that is a major problem.
Obviously, expelling anyone in the war after that was wrong, but that idea is discounting that many who left during "the Nakba" weren't expelled.
Why don't you talk about Kfar Etzion? The Haifa Oil Refinery? The Hadassah medical convoy?