Palestine is a equally valuable to Christian and Muslims.. And these are the 3 faiths have coexisted and have grown for centuries under Muslims and Christians rules
We have our 1st direction of prayer in Aqsa and Christians have their very scared Church where they think Jesus will come
So there is no real reason for Jews to claim their right over Palestine and while doing so claim their right iver Muslims and Christian places and that whole sacred area under the pre-text that "WE WANT A JEWISH COUNTRY"
There is no logical reason to decimate and ethnically cleanse an already existing country where the 3 religions existed mutually, just to build an apartied state claiming ownership of the place because once upon a time millenniums ago there existed a Jewish empire
This is no different than radical twisted "Muslims" trying to revive the Caliphate under the similar pretexts.
So zionism started in the late 1800s as a jewish liberation movement. Jews were persecuted in europe for hundreds of years and so this idea came about that jews needed a homeland where they can be safe from persecution. This idea was ultimately proven right with the holocaust, where millions of jews died because they were denied refuge in other countries.
Anyways in the late 1800s, many jews decided to immigrate to Israel. This caused a lot of conflict, many arabs didn't like jewish immigration to the region. Because of this, there was a lot of fighting between the groups. This culminated in a giant war, the arabs lost, and had to leave the area.
Now I will not deny that there are a lot of bad things that the zionists have done. However, this isn't comparable to ISIS trying to revive the caliphate. Why? Because not only are muslims not oppressed in the middle east, there are countless muslim countries, whereas Israel is the sole jewish state. Even within the region, there are multiple arab muslim states; Jordan and Egypt are the ones that come to my mind first. These states held parts of Palestine before the six day war.
A better analogy to the zionists would probably be indian partition, where the muslims demanded their own state because they were afraid of being oppressed by indian rule.
In any case, the reason so many jews support israel is because israel is viewed as essential to the security of the jewish people, who have faced violence for hundreds of years. If another nazi government ever came about and jews were ever persecuted again, they would always be able to flee to israel. Would this be the case if there was an Arab majority state in the region? The answer is no. If i'm not mistaken, the arabs fought for britain to limit the immigration of jews to the area even during hitler's rule.
Anyways, I'm not saying that any of this justifies violence against arabs, but its not so simple as "well, if the jews just accepted arab rule, everything would be fine", because the arabs were never tolerant of a large jewish presence in the region.
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I don't think anti-zionists realize that to the Israelis, The State of Israel is a matter of survival. Its the thing that stands between them and another holocaust.
Which is why the whole "Palestine will be free from river to sea" thing simply will never work. I think part of the reason why the arabs were never able to defeat the israelis is simply because they didn't have the same resolve as the israelis. They israelis had nowhere else to go, europe had just tried to eradicate them and the whole world was complicit in what Hitler was doing to the jews up until he started invading other countries.
There is no "peaceful dissolution of the state of Israel." The israelis would probably fight to the death to protect their home and the safety of their people and the only way Israel could ever be dissolved would be via a brutal and violent war, probably resulting in a second holocaust.