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[-] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

By this logic Germans would not have had to give back the property that the Nazis robbed from the Jews. This is complete nonsense.

You cannot inherit legally, what was robbed from someone else. The legal ownership belongs to the original owners or their inheritors.

Any Israeli living in a house or on land they robbed, must either leave or buy it from the legitimate owners at a fair price. Irrespective of that the legitimate owners must also be fully compensated for the inability to use their land for all the years it was kept from them.

This is the legal and just way. Any other way invites more crimes and crimes against humanity as it rewards the criminals including by rewarding their descendants.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I can’t see descendants of settlers who are en masse being kicked out of their homes and heavily taxed coming together to peacefully build a society with the people whom they ceded their homes to and whom they’re paying those reparations. Can you? How would you go about it without making them so resentful that they either refuse to help rebuild or start attacking the institutions of the new single state?

I see the philosophical balance your solution would bring and it’s what I would want to do if I suddenly found myself a settler/settler’s descendant, but I don’t think enforcing it will lead to lasting peace. Perhaps with an education system that truly integrates children and teaches all of their history, without whitewashing any of it. But I think there’s a very strong cultural attachment in Israel to homeschooling, and don’t know if enforcing public schooling would create further resentment.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

It is quite simple. If they dont comply with the law, they face criminal punishment. If they are unwilling to compensate the victims of their land robbery, then all their assets, including abroad, need to be seized and given to their victims.

The sentimentalities of the criminals can not be a detriment to the rights of the victims. Either the criminals obey and work to resocialize, or they face additional punishment.

As the IDF is a genocidal terror organization Israelis, who largely served in that terror organization, are already getting a very good deal, if they are not imprisoned for multiple decades and only the worst offenders are held criminally liable.

They should rejoice at the opportunity given to them to only repay their victims for the damage they have done.

[-] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure the Israelis expelled from other countries where land was stolen from them will be pleased to hear this.

[-] Googlies@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

So Palestinians must pay for the crimes of others?

[-] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's about the polar opposite of where we're going with this.

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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