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Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

An excellent history for context Nurit. I would add a few other pieces of information for those who don't know.

1. At the end of the 1948 War some 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. Shortly thereafter some 900,000 Jews from various Middle Eastern Countries were expelled because of events in that war and forced to flee to Israel. The nearly 1:1 exchange of populations should have been the basis for ending all claims for "Right to Return" on both sides.

2. Israel allows Palestinians to live and be citizens of Israel. The same is NOT true of the Palestinians under Hamas or the Palestinian Authority which insist that their state must be Jew Free (Judenrhein). As such, this makes clear which side is NOT open to tolerance and co-existence and why a one state solution of a united Israeli-Palestinian state is impossible.

3. Israel has made and maintained peace with Egypt and Jordan demonstrating that they are capable of being a partner in peace. The Palestinians have destroyed every place they live with conflict ruining Lebanon, destabilizing Syria and Jordan and turning Gaza and the West Bank into rocket launching platforms rather than peaceful states living alongside Israel.

4. With Gaza being independent under Palestinian Authority and then Hamas rule, the residents of Gaza had an independent state. That state's lawfully elected government engaged in a genocidal war against Israel this month. It is entirely appropriate that the losing party in this war forfeit territory as a means to avoid future ability to renew that war in the future. The Palestinian state of Gaza has been judged and found incompatible with peace. It's people no longer have any claim to continued residence in the region.

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selv's avatar

Precisely the article that needed to be written.

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