I don’t think I made the argument you think you are addressing. I don’t feel strongly about Jewish history in Israel defining modern Jewish ownership.
You chose an arbitrary start time intended to make the Israelis out to be the aggressors and tried to claim that because the land was taken by force it should be returned. If your standard is that all land taken by force should be returned to its original owners then I’m not sure why you are solely concerned with Israel or who you would consider the original owner.
The assumption you’re making is that there was some continuous presence there that somehow became Israel. Unless you accept the bible as authority, there is absolutely no such presence.
Israel was founded in the 40’s by immigrants from Europe who arrived beginning in the 30’s, and those immigrants dispossessed the native people there. That is what makes Israel the aggressor.
However, to address your hypothetical, if some group with legends connecting them to my home conquered the US and took it away from me by force, then no, I would have no practical rights except what they gave me. That would suck. In such a scenario I would hope that I would be able to rebuild in some other place and not just teach my children to detonate a suicide vest in a crowded market, but I guess different brave and beautiful cultures have different priorities.
So you accept the Palestinians right to keep their home, you just don’t accept their tactics? If your neighbours used terrorism to resist a Mexican takeover, I suppose you’d be out there condemning them and offering up your home out of shame?
That is simply wrong and I’m fairly certain you are aware of it. In addition to the Jews who fled Europe, a significant fraction were ethnically cleansed from essentially all other Middle Eastern countries or fled persecution from same.
I assume you will likewise champion the Jews who were kicked out of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Libya, etc. returning to blow up busses in those countries that mistreated them?
It is not ridiculous for us to keep our land, any more than it is ridiculous for Israelis to keep their land despite Palestinian claims. :)
Jews who were forced out of the US allied gulf states definitely should have the right to return to their homelands. They are not and never have been a significant fraction of the Israeli population, which is almost entirely European immigrants within a single generation (including Russia).
You’ve made a conclusion about Israeli land claims which is directly contradictory to your own views about your rights.
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