What? Ergo genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the west bank?!? What exactly are you arguing here???

I am arguing that the Jewish people are indigenous to the area, and have the same rights to self-determination, independence, and to a country for their people as any other people in the world.

I am not arguing in support of genocide or ethnic cleansing. But I am arguing against the erasure of legitimate Jewish claims to the area, that sit side-by-side with Palestinian claims. This is a "one land, two native peoples" situation - not a settler colonist situation. The Jews have a legitimate claim to also be indigenous to the area, despite being displaced by the colonial powers of their day (first the Babylonians, then the Romans, and later the Muslim conquest of the area under the Rashidun Caliphate).

I'm afraid you're making the mistake of conflating Zionism - the belief that the Jewish people have the same rights to have a country for their people as any of the other peoples of the world - with the very specific policies of the current right-wing government of Israel towards the West Bank and Gaza. They are not identical.

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