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that's irrelevant. everyone of those would have become a genocidal apartheid state.
That's the catch right? Is there even a correct way to resettle a population? Ethnostates on some level with probably always just be broken.
But I'm glad op shared this. This seems to be a part of the Isreal discussion that gets walked past
This part isn’t mentioned much because it’s irrelevant fringe. Several locations were discussed at the time, only Palestine was practically viable. It has the huge advantage of having core historical and cultural significance to the Jewish people. “Next year in Jerusalem” is said at Passover and Yom Kippur, their most important festivals. There had also been a continuous Jewish population in the land.
Ethnostates are the default in Europe and there are many around the world. A common ethnicity, language, and culture creates cohesion and solidarity.
The multi-ethnic empire that came before that had their own issues.
People have a right to self determination. That includes the Jewish people.
Yes. there is. this has happened many times though history. we have a name for that, refugees.
Did the Yiddish refugees who settled in America began am ethnic cleansing? did the Jewish refugees from 1492 spain who settled in North Africa caused an ethnic cleansing?
and the other countless refugee events in history?
Israel isn't a "resettlement of people fleeing violence", it was a racist and antisemitic settler colonial project from the beginning, and wherever it chose to build itself, it would have been the same bullshit with different victims.