I have been thinking about it for a while
I think the Zionists had a point. There was a need for Jewish unity and political autonomy at that point in history.
And I don’t think there was anything inherently wrong with Jews trying to seek that in Palestine, the land which has the greatest connection to the Jewish people.
I think the issue was their approach. They were racists and they were inspired by previous European colonial efforts. Rather than create a state out of lands that naturally had a Jewish majority, the Zionists wanted most, if not all, of Palestine.
Yet they did not have a majority in these lands. So they created one via the nakba, ethnically cleansing the Palestinians to create Israel.
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in 1945, Jews had a majority in Jaffa. If they just created a state around Jaffa, then I don’t think that there would still be a conflict to this day.
I’m sure the Arabs would been mad that European immigrants created a state in the Arab heartland, but they would get over it. Especially if nobody was displaced in the state’s creation.
I bet if they tried they could have turned Jaffa into a billionaire tax haven, like the European micro states.