Fahran wrote:Salus Maior wrote:Population transfers are also ethnic cleansing.
It's almost as if ethnic nationalism is pure cancer that simply destroys all relationships between peoples who have been neighbors for centuries.
Ethnic nationalism is a protective measure in the case of Zionism. I would be a lot more considerate of the viewpoint that Jews should cease to pursue their own nation-state if we could have been accepted as something other than foreigners and villains consistently at any point prior to 1960. Euros and Arabs don't get to demand that Jews put down their sword after centuries of storming into the Jewish quarters with torches and pitch forks, after centuries of subjugation, jizya, and inquisition, and after centuries of not treating us as equals. The notion that such an outcome is just relies wholly on us putting good faith in local Gentiles to behave when they're not even behaving right now.
The suffering of Palestinians is unfortunate and tragic, but I wholly appreciate why Jewish people living in Israel has no intention of allowing their neighbors to ever get the upper hand or even have an unearned moment of respite. Because they don't expect to ever be given the same mercy, consideration, or courtesy.
This of course being along the same lines of thought as the Turks on the eve of 1915. As well as every genocidal power that's existed in the modern age, including the ones which victimized your people in particular. The destruction of another people, particularly those perceived to be a threat to the dominant peoples' status, goes hand in hand with ethnic nationalism.
And I have no problem believing that, if international observation were to suddenly be removed from the picture, that the IDF would absolutely slaughter minorities en masse. The rhetoric and sentiment are already there, all we need is a major enough war and there will be a Israeli conducted holocaust.