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This is factually very incorrect and you are completely ignoring half of the story. Just like Israel displaced many Arabs from their land, Arab countries did the same: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
If you argue that Israel should give the whole land back to Palestinians, sure, but also convince many Arab countries to give parts of their land back to Jews. So that it is fair and Israelis have somewhere to go. I am sure that this idea would go very well in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc. If you say that UN should collectively take Israel back, where should the Israelis go? Just like Palestinians, they have nowhere else to go. Asking for the destruction of Israel is just like asking for the destruction of Palestine - a terrible idea.
It is fair to say both sides have done terrible actions and none of them can be excused. However, telling only one side of the story and completely ignoring the other one is not correct. Debating who is the worse here makes zero sense. For every argument why Israel is worse than Palestine, it is possible to find one why Palestine is worse than Israel. It's literally like debating who was the best and worst out of Hitler, Stalin and Zedong. Continuing the debate who has done more crimes is completely useless because it helps nothing. Both sides have done tons of them.
From the first paragraph in your link:
So the expulsion of Jewish people from Arab states discussed here came AFTER the illegal forming of Israel - as a direct result of it, in fact. Israelis did have "somewhere to go" before the zionists movement basically lobbied for a state of their own - they lived all over the world.
And of course this happened. If any country is 90% religion x and there is some land somewhere that is split between religion x and religion y, the UN would face horrendous push back from the 90% of that initial country that sympathizes with religion x. And while religion is a plague on our lands that brings little value aside from excusing atrocities, this is the fucking UN. Lacking the tact to understand how their shit resolution destabilized the region isn't something that's supposed to be allowed for them. They fucked up and now refuse to fix it.
But let's make it easier - have the UN pass a resolution today that makes half the US(or Germany, or the UK, or Russia) Arab land, only for Arabs, to be settled by Arab settlers. See how well that fucking goes, and then go ahead and blame that country for not being willing to go ahead with half their land being taken away.
There is no "other side" here, man. Zionists created this problem. They're unwilling to fix it, and they're unwilling to stop their genocide. Everything else is a reaction to this. You don't get to say "fuck you, I own this land now" and then turn around and say "WAAAAHH THE OTHER SIDE DOESN'T WANT TO COMPROMISE". Of course they fucking don't.
Israel is committing genocide. That is why it is worse. That is what everyone except you can see, and that is why you've lost this argument.
So far there has not been a decision made that Israel is committing genocide, so your point is irrelevant. It is currently at the international court. Once the final decision is made, then we will see.
Judging what war crime is worse cannot be exactly said and depends on person's opinion..
Where do you live? I think I should move in and then kill your family if they object.
They you will be prosecuted and jailed for a very long time.
Found the colonizer
Why were the early Zionists dead set on partition (and repeatedly stated that partition would only be a step to a full state of Israel) as soon as Palestinian leaders advocated for a unitary state? Why does Palestine get the blame for not wanting their land taken during WWII while European countries and the US didn't increase or in some cases even restricted Jewish immigration even once the Nazi atrocious were known? What's the Palestinian equivalent of Plan Dalet? How about the Israeli martial law? The occupation and blockade? There absolutely has been a cycle of violence, but this has been a cycle of violence between the Colonizer/Occupier and Colonized/Occupied
https://imeu.org/article/plan-dalet
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/examining-myths-israel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#Israel
https://forward.com/news/470923/israel-land-conquest-1967-occupation-six-day-war-plans/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza
https://www.btselem.org/duty_to_end_occupation
The issue with this narrative is that there was a state of Palestine. It wasn't like Palestine existed and UN suddenly came and decided that a part of it would belong to Jewish people. There was the intention to create 3 new states (Jordan, Israel and Palestine) which never existed before.
That's addressed in the 2nd link
“Zionism was a settler colonial movement, similar to the movements of Europeans who had colonized the two Americas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand… Settler colonialism is motivated by a desire to take over land in a foreign country, while classical colonialism covets the natural resources in its new geographic possession… The problem was that the new ‘homelands’ were already inhabited by other people. In response, the settler communities argued that the new land was theirs by divine or moral right, even if, in cases other than Zionism, they did not claim to have lived there thousands of years ago. In many cases, the accepted method for overcoming such obstacles was the genocide of the indigenous locals.”