albaby1

Your statements about Jews living in Palestine prior to WWll is completely accurate, but it is not right to conflate immigrant Jews from Europe in the 1940's with the prior group. Religious ties are not the same thing as physical tenancy in my view. There were no problems of this magnitude before the immigration of large numbers of Eastern European Jews.

It appears, that motivated by a desire for a principally Jewish state, and in fact, Palestinians are given a lesser citizenship, if any at all, expulsions were the order of the day. That has continued unabated from the founding of Israel. That is the definition of colonization. Move in and move the other out.

There are many reasons for the failure to the two state solution, and Jews deserve a state of their own, though I am leery of mixing politics and religion. However, despite the multitude of actors who derailed the two state solution, in my view, it is morally incumbent upon Israel to make it happen, as the state of Israel set everything in motion that led to today. Israel is not the victim here.