[JumpCrisscross]

> What about Gazans and West Bank palestenians whose families came from elsewhere

I’m sympathetic to the argument that there should be reparations—from Israel but also France, Britain and Turkey—for victims of the Nakbah.

But let’s be clear on a right of return: this logic applies to almost every human in Europe or Asia when it comes to the Middle East if we go back far enough. We’re talking about the closest coast to the cradle of civilisation.

[mcpar-land]

You don't have to go 'back' to find Palestinians alive, today, who can point at their settler-occupied homes on a map, and tell you the day they were kicked out. I think that's a reasonable cutoff point for right of return.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I think that's a reasonable cutoff point for right of return

I do too. The contours of how that works with their descendants, and when we draw the line for the living, has been debated in good faith (and bad, increasingly recently) for decades [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return