Comment by DiogenesKynikos
1 day ago
If it's not a different country from Israel, then give them Israeli citizenship.
There's a very simple reason Israel doesn't give the Palestinians citizenship: Israel wants to make sure the large majority of voters are Jewish. It wants the land, but not the people who live there.
> If it's not a different country from Israel, then give them Israeli citizenship.
The period we are talking about had no Israel either, so I am not sure what was supposed to happen there in your view.
> There's a very simple reason Israel doesn't give the Palestinians citizenship: Israel wants to make sure the large majority of voters are Jewish.
Of course. We all (1) see what happens to non-muslims in other middle eastern countries, and (2) saw what happened to the middle eastern jewry after 1948. I doubt that Iraqi jews living in Israel want to live under Islamic rule again.
> It wants the land, but not the people who live there.
This is false. Israel multiple times traded land for peace. The latest one was leaving Gaza in 2005.
Why are you keeping twisting the facts to suit your narrative?
＞ Of course.
And you think that's legitimate? Keeping millions of people under permanent rule of a state with no rights whatsoever?
I'm not going to get into your historical claims, except to note that the reason why the situation for Middle Eastern Jews changed so drastically after 1948 was because a bunch of people claiming to represent all Jews conquered a strip of land in the Middle East and expelled the native population. That did not go down well elsewhere in the Middle East, and the fact that the new state was proclaimed "the Jewish state" painted a target on the back of Jews throughout the region, who had had nothing to do with the founding of Israel.
> Israel multiple times traded land for peace. The latest one was leaving Gaza in 2005.
Israel left Gaza in 2005 so that it could concentrate on the settlement of the West Bank. It was a strategic move to conserve their forces.
The only "land for peace" deal that Israel has made is with Egypt. Israel did that because it did not want to risk another war like 1973 with a serious military opponent.