A common trope in mainstream Israeli discourse argues that “if other countries care about Palestinians so badly, they should take them all.”
I also remember the historical echo that “if other countries care about Jews so badly, they should take them all.”
When the subjects are Jewish people, Zionism’s answer is that two thousand years of ancient memory gives them an absolute right to return to a sovereign state on an ancestral homeland. When the subjects are Palestinians, the same movement argues that two thousand years of continuously rooted presence gives them no right to remain on theirs.
Demanding that foreign states absorb Palestinians treats them as generic, interchangeable outsiders based purely on ethnicity, language, or religion. That mirrors the historic European claim that Jews were rootless wanderers who could simply be transferred anywhere else.
The core contradiction is that the movement founded to escape forced exile and statelessness now employs the exact logic of exile against Palestinians, on the exact same land.
When foreign countries refuse to take Palestinians, that refusal is weaponized as proof that the population is unwanted and disposable, which was the exact justification used to erase Jewish people. Using “nobody wants them” as permission to cleanse the land adopts the precise logic that Zionism was allegedly created to dismantle.
This traps the state in perpetual terror by its own design. If the core Zionist truth is that exile only immortalizes the demand to return, then forcing Palestinians into exile guarantees an enemy that will never stop fighting. By forcing Palestinians into the diaspora condition, Israel manufactures the exact force committed to its undoing, ensuring that the very logic used to build the state becomes the premise that leads to its downfall.
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Only that there are no "jewish people" in the sense of "palestinian people". 'Jewish' is a religious adjective, not an ethnicity. Again, no equidistance here.
"When the subjects are Jewish people, Zionism’s answer is that two thousand years of ancient memory gives them an absolute right to return to a sovereign state on an ancestral homeland. When the subjects are Palestinians, the same movement argues that two thousand years of continuously rooted presence gives them no right to remain on theirs." yes.....