Most people just want Israel to stop killing Palestinian civilians. This is absolutely a strawman argument.
Unfortunately, the GWM do not want that.
Or it would end, peacefully. But we all know that isn't going to happen. Because Hamas still has a couple million human shields to use.
Tom
It would end peacefully if the IWM (ZWM?) got onboard with Israel being a "multiethnic democracy offering peace and prosperity" and allowed the former residents to return and stopped displacing even more people.
The Return can happen slowly and in stages, so there's no reason to panic.
Will the Return include the Jews who has to leave their countries in the 1940s and 50s?
Are you asking if Jews should be allowed to return to the countries they left in the 1940s and 1950s, or if they should be allowed to emigrate to Israel? Or do you mean, would they be allowed to "Return" to a place where they never lived and their families haven't been for at least 400 years, and displace the indigenous Palestinians from families that have been living there all this time, because of a religious belief that a god gave the land to their ancestors back in the Bronze Age?
These are the Jews to which I refer
Jews forced out of Arab countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
I think anyone whose family was forcibly displaced should be allowed to live where their families used to live if that's where they want to be, and compensated for their losses by the government that wronged them. If a religious or ethnic community was targeted for expulsion, the State or governing body that did it is responsible for their suffering, not some State of some other people living elsewhere. For example, the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were forced into "relocation centers", should have their property restored and/or receive just and fair compensation for the loss and the hardships they were forced to endure. Canada and Mexico don't owe them a thing, because Canada and Mexico didn't force them into Manzanar, Minidoka, or any of the other internment camps.
If the family left in pursuit of opportunity elsewhere or to retain something they valued, like Algerian Jews who wanted to retain their French citizenship when Algeria was about to become an independent nation, they might be given extra consideration on their applications to return to where their grandparents used to live, but I don't think that should be an automatic granting of permission.
There is a tremendous difference between choosing to live elsewhere and being forced out at gunpoint.
Agreed but it seems the right of return only applies to Palestinians, not Jews, nor other people.
There are millions upon millions of people who were forced to leave their homes since the start of the 20th C. (just to put a stake in the ground)
After WW1 there were many who were forced to move as new countries were formed and they were on the wrong size of the new borders
Millions changed home after the partition of British india into Pakistan and India.
Millions fled China after Mao became ruler.
Thousands fled Cuba after Castro took power.
Koreans headed north or south during and after the Korean war
Same as in Vietman
Hundreds of thousands of Greeks has to leave Asis Minor/ turkey after Ataturk became ruler of Turkey and teh end of the Greek-Turko war. They had been living there since before the Trojan War.
Millions had to move after the end of WW2.
And on it goes.
And of course the waves of Jews leaving Europe since the 1890s.
None of these are given the right of return. They are told 'Bad luck'.
The Palestinians seem to be special. Why is that?
