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by xg15
474 days ago
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I can understand that historical position. If someone knocked on my door and told me "hey, I'm gonna take 2/3 of your house or all of it, what do you prefer?" I probably wouldn't inclined to answer either. Of course none of the present-day Israelis are responsible for that. They are responsible for retreating into a sanitized, mythological narrative about the founding of their state, however. > Historically, Palestinians rejected all compromise attempts to end the conflict and get their state. that's the only reason why there's no palestinian country. Since then, Palestinians have already twice declared their acceptance of a two-state solution in the 1976 borders and declared a state in those borders. It does not explain why Israel and the US kept blocking a state even within those borders. (Meanwhile you can read in Likud's founding charter that the party always fundamentally rejected any kind of Palestinian state as their official policy - a policy that Israel now enacts increasingly openly) |
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The palestinians who lived in what is Israel today were considered Ottoman, the term "Palestinian" was simply used to name people who live in that strip of land, rather than an actual nationality. Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe became "Palestinians".
After the palestinians rejected the partition plan, and war broke out - they lost many of their villages. People who fled later claimed they were expelled for various reasons. Arabs who stayed put and didn't flee became full citizens
That's the whole story