[hersko]

Oh, you mean the war where multiple arabs armies attacked the newly formed Israel at the behest of the local arabs? Where the leader of the Arab League Azzam Pasha said, "this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades [1]."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

[petsfed]

The newly formed Israel, that was formed because of constant (arguably terrorist) attacks on the British army, alongside actions against indigenous Palestinian Arabs (actions that could justly be called pogroms themselves), by Jewish separatists.

Those separatists were justifiably motivated, by the reality of the Holocaust, and the endless series of pogroms in pre-WWII Eastern Europe, to want a place of their own.

There was a certain kind of Jewish settler who decided that moving slowly back, and doing so in a friendly fashion to the people they were necessarily displacing, was unacceptable. it did not matter that other people had been living for centuries on the land they felt was theirs. It did not matter to them that most Jews were forced out of Palestine by ancient Rome.

I think a lot about the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the Landback movement here in the states. Is there a statute of limitations on giving land back to a displaced people? It feels like there should be.