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I was confused for years about the history of the conflict. I had heard "Israel was there 2,000 years ago", and just had this blurry idea of "Israel was full of Jewish people at some point and there were also Arabs at some point". But the second you actually double down and go, OK, what were the actual demographics in this region, every year in the last 200 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
Jewish population in the region - 2.5% as of 1800 - didn't even break 16% until WWI and hadn't even been a majority since the 4th century. The influx of Jewish migrants into the region was spurred by post-1880s Zionism, which specifically sought to reclaim Palestine as a Jewish territory. And now, besides the Gaza strip and the constantly shrinking West Bank, they control the entire area of Mandatory Palestine, and then some. You keep looking into it and realize, yes, there was actually a forced expulsion of the Palestinian population, the Nakba, in 1948 - 700k Palestinians expelled, 500 villages destroyed, and the renaming of the former towns and cities to have Jewish names. Have you ever heard that word used by someone from Israel, or someone in Western media? "Nakba"? This huge act of ethnic cleansing, central to explaining this entire conflict, and it's just completely brushed aside, as if the civilization never existed.
You look at videos of interviews about the conflict from the 1980s, they're using the exact same language about "Israel's right to exist", "Israel's right to self defense". How long does it take after you violently expel a population for your "right to exist" on the land to take effect, exactly? What is the mathematical formula for reparations and Palestinian right to return here? Nobody is even asking these questions, rather, the remaining Palestinian population in its entirety is being sidelined as a "problem" and "terrorists" - it's literally the language of Nazi Germany being rehashed by the Israeli state, under its (false) pretense to represent the Jewish people, while the existence of this other population they displaced is just erased. I'm just speechless to witness it. The entire discourse about this conflict is inherently racist, to such an extreme degree.
Most of what I looked into was trying to find the source of it all, so I didn't look that much into the more modern history, but you're absolutely right. The British and Zionists made a deal to grow the Jewish population in the region to grow British influence. Israel as a state isn't even a hundred years old I think.
It is disgusting how between the Balfour Declaration and present the narrative has dehumanized Palestinians and stripped them of their cultural identity -- which is genocide through and through. What's worse is that I think they've been kicked down by everyone. In the first Arab Israeli War, the Arab nations occupied Palestine during the war. When they lost, the land was either ceded to or taken by Israel. Now, after decades of using the Palestinians, the neighboring Arab nations won't take Palestinian refugees. Some have accepted Israel.
And then there's Hamas, who effectively occupies part of the region and launches attacks from civilian areas. Once again, using Palestinians to their own ends. They have their stockpiles of water and medicine and food, and they aren't sharing. They anticipated Israel collectively punishing (genociding) all of Palestine in response to their attacks. The radicals are also part of why the neighboring countries aren't taking in Palestinians. When they did in the past, radicals like Hamas took advantage of it to cause civil strife and conflict. It's all such a mess. Everyone's using Palestinians for their own ends while Israel continues their genocide.
At this point, I think Israel has been around long enough that you'd just be punishing children for the sins of their fathers if the state was to be dissolved. By no means though does that mean the borders should stay the same. It should return to the original demarcation, and a state of Palestine, or perhaps Nakba, should be established next to them. Or maybe Israel can treat everyone within their borders and colonies as citizens with equal rights. I know neither are realistic. The latter is impossible with the IDF and conservative government. The former is impossible because of Hamas. They refuse a two state solution, and reiterated the other day that they would continue to do attacks like the first one until everyone there was dead.
Feel free to correct me if anything I've said is wrong, like I said I looked into the early history a lot more than the recent. I don't know what can be done. You have the IDF hellbent on bombing all of Gaza, and you have Hamas hellbent on killing everyone in Israel.