Nicholas: I’m more than happy to keep our dialogue going so long as you continue, as you have been so far (thank you!), to be civil!
Further to your toot, I must say that you don’t seem to have read my previous toot at all! I’m not a racist, nor am I anti-Semitic and, as such, I would never advocate forcing Israel’s Jewish population “to go back where they come from”! That’s you reading into my message a meaning that isn’t there!
On the other hand, you seem to be having trouble recognising that the Palestinians are the true indigenous population of the country we all now call Israel given that they’ve lived there for a thousand years or more [see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians].
On the other hand, again according to Wikipedia [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Palestinians]: “In 1882 the population [of Palestine] numbered approximately 320,000 people, 25,000 of whom were Jewish. Many of these were Arab Jews and in the narrative works of Arabs in Palestine in the late Ottoman period – as evidenced in the autobiographies and diaries of Khalil Sakakini and Wasif Jawhariyyeh – ‘native’ Jews were often referred to as abnaa al-balad (sons of the country), 'compatriots', or Yahud awlad Arab (‘Jews, sons of Arabs’).”
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“When the First Palestinian Congress of February 1919 issued its anti-Zionist manifesto rejecting Zionist immigration, it extended a welcome to those Jews ‘among us who have been Arabicized, who have been living in our province since before the war; they are as we are, and their loyalties are our own’.”
Arab Palestinians and Jews were obviously able to live together peacefully in the early 20th Century! It’s the European-origin, ethno-nationalist, settler-colonial ideology called #Zionism that has caused all the problems - culminating in the current ongoing genocide!