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Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde
Conflicts in history never have been a B&W issue (are you saying the conflict with Native American were a B&W issue? surely not). Conflict by (personal) definition means both sides always share the fault.
Israel and Palestine is just history repeating itself. It's happened many times before everywhere else, and will keep happening in the future. Such is human nature.
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The difference is colonists came and took Native American land who were always there. Perhaps how the conflict was handled was not B&W, but I think whose land it was at the time was much more clear cut.
The issue with Israel is it was not always
just Palestinian land. You can even say both Jews and Palestinians have claim to the land. Jews have always been living in that country. They didn't just magically come over and say let's claim this unclaimed land. The whole history of the Jewish people are in that country. And there were talks about what to do about Palestine well before WWII and the Arab and Jewish population there (and the Jewish diaspora).
Now I am not denying that Jewish people took Palestinian homes when they came over and the Palestinians fled in the early days of the conflict but to say the conflict is the exact same issue as Native Americans is taking a very simple look at the conflict and the history of it all. And that is part of the problem with this conflict is people try to simplify it and don't understand how complex it is. And heck while Palestinians fled Israel, many Jews were also forced to flee neighboring Arab countries.
Israel is both the home of Palestinian and Jewish people. To say one group had more claim to the country is wrong. The Palestinians were not there first, just
at the time of when Israel became a state the Palestinians had a majority.