The Israeli response to that would be that they were expelled from the area first, resulting in the Jewish Diaspora. Of course, that expulsion, unlike the expulsion of the Palestinians, wasn’t a singular event and it wasn’t entirely forced. Some it was, but it also was spread out over about 1000 years. Anyway, my point is, you can’t get into this debate about who started it, because that debate will never end. To me, it’s irrelevant, and it’s just another version of “two wrongs do make a right”. I’m honestly not convinced that the two state solution is going to fix things. Even if the Israelis, the Palestinians, and other Arabic nations agree to it, there will probably be endless arguments about where the borders are. As long as humans are hating other humans because they’re different, this shit is going to keep happening. We need to somehow stop nationalism and xenophobia and Islamophobia and AntiSemitism. And those are all really big problems I don’t think anyone has an answer for.
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