Comment by coryrc

> For what it's worth to the symmetry argument there were Jews happily living in Palestine before 1900,

Someone's never heard of jizya, or the repeated slaughters of Jewish civilians in the century prior to Israel's creation: https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/pogroms-in-palestine-befor...

Not to mention what some backward, cruel warlord did to much of the Middle Eastern population starting in 622:

"Alongside his campaign against the Quraysh, Muhammad led campaigns against several other tribes of Arabia, most notably the three Arabian Jewish tribes of Medina and the Jewish fortress at Khaybar."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Muhammad

And it never ended. It's continuing to this day.