Yea, that’s what happens when your country chooses to support the wrong side in a world war and get stomped so bad the entire country collapses and is redistributed to the winners. Then Britain suggests using it’s chunk to house a group of people that literally just went through the holocaust and needed a place (and it just so happened they had a historical claim to much of that area anyways)
So yes, pushing people out was part of the plan.
You act like this hasn’t happened before, yet you(probably American based on your posting) live on land that was taken by force in an even more violent way from the native population. You planning on leaving and heading back to Europe anytime soon? Or are we only trying to stop new situations but old ones are allowed to persist?
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Zionism is a settler colonialism project that was able to really start with the support of British Imperialism. Zionism as a political movement started with Theodore Herzl in the 1880s as a ‘modern’ way to ‘solve’ the ‘Jewish Question’ of Europe. Western Nations supported this instead of instituting legal protections and refuge for Jewish people fleeing persecution.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
Since at least the 1860’s, Europe was increasingly antisemitic and hostile to Jewish people. Zionism was explicitly a Setter Colonialist movement and the native Palestinians were not considered People but Savages by the Europeans. While Zionist Colonization began before it, the Balfor Declaration is when Britain gave it’s backing of the movement in order to ‘solve’ the ‘Jewish Question’ while also creating a Colony in the newly conquered Middle East after WWI in order to exhibit military force in the region and extract natural resources.
That’s when Zionist immigration started to pick up, out of necessity for most as Europe became more hostile and antisemitic. That continued into and during WWII, European countries and even the US refused to expand immigration quotas for Jewish people seeking asylum. The idea that the creation of Israel is a reparation for Jewish people is an after-the-fact justification. While most Jewish immigrants had no choice and just wanted a place to live in peace, it was the Zionist Leadership that developed and implemented the forced transfer, ethnic cleansing, of the native population, Palestinians. Without any Occupation, Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, there would not be any Palestinian resistance to it.
Herzl himself explicitly considered Zionism a Settler Colonialist project, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough Palestinian people need to be ‘Transferred’ to have a demographic majority that is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.
Over 12000 Palestinians fought alongside Jewish forces against Nazi Germany. Nor would ethnic cleansing be justified if that wasn’t the case.
I support equal rights and reparations for Native Americans in America, which they still don’t currently have. So what’s your point. I’m advocating for equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians too.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
America is a settler colonialism project started by British imperialism.
Equal rights and reparations for native Americans? Give me a break, how is that in any way acceptable after slaughtering them to take an entire continent?
If that’s all that’s needed, then maybe Israel should just eject all Palestinians entirely into Egypt, Jordan, etc, then send them a gift basket for a housewarming in their new location. They wouldn’t even need to kill anywhere close to the 95% of native Americans that died during the takeover of North America.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not. It’s the bare minimum
No, they could just have a One-State Solution with equal rights. Nothing justifies ethnic cleansing.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Bare minimum, the American way.
A one state solution is a pipe dream, even Ireland couldn’t figure that shit out and their differences are much smaller.
History is littered with failed one state solutions, from the USSR to the Roman empire.