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UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter
(www.theguardian.com)
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So you're saying that Israel has no right to exist?
-Israeli government when they hear that, probably
Lol yea, but do you see the contradiction between
and a state being established through the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Israel spends a lot of money on PR to whitewash that.
I recognize this fact, just as I recognize the US being built on the genocide of native Americans, or China going through genocides to expand westward, or Russia being built on conquering entire damn Siberia (with quite some bloodshed), or, idk, Roman Empire being built on enslaving just about everyone everywhere.
But those new people are not the ones who did that; Israel is now dominated by people who were just born there, holding no direct relation to the events back then. I have no sorrow for those of them who cry for the continued genocide in Palestine; but we've seen many voices from within Israel calling for de-escalation of the conflict, for ceasefire, for peace. And they do not deserve to suffer the same fate as it falls on the shoulders of current Palestinians. Neither do Palestinians, of course.
True, except the difference Israel is still taking occupied land and building settlements, and excluding the people born there from them.
The government at least needs to pick one of the two options to move forward (as well as acknowledging and making reparations for those with traditional connections to the land who were affected by past injustices):
The problem is the current right-wing extremists in power in Israel do not want either solution; they want to have it both ways - when it comes to ownership and control, they want to deny the existence of a Palestinian state. But when it comes to citizenship, they want to claim everyone born on the land they occupy is not Israeli so they can deny them rights and exploit them. Their life is substantially controlled by the Israeli state, but they get no say in the leadership of the state - undermining claims it is a democracy. They don't have equal protection under the law - Israeli authorities protect settlers taking land against people with generational connections to the land.
None of this is new in history, as you point out. Most of the Roman Empire, most of the former British Commonwealth, etc... had similar things in the past, with massacres of the native people, lands confiscated, native people been treated as having fewer rights than the colonialists, etc...
What is different is that those are all past atrocities (although fair reparations have still not been paid in many cases, at least further atrocities are generally not continuing to anything like the same extent), while Israel continues to commit the same atrocities to this very day.
I agree with you. To me, a two-state solution seems much more plausible, and even if there should be one state, it shouldn't be Israel or Palestine but something of a new name with equal representation of both sides. Because otherwise Israeli leaders will do everything in their power to erode the power of Palestinians and then there will be a scenario you describe further.