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Originally Posted by _Q_
So the 700,000 palestinians displaced from the area between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river after 1948 were never really there? The 3 million Palestinians living there right now should just get up and move to Jordan? Isn't that ethnic cleansing? It doesn't matter whether or not there has ever been an independent nation called Palestine before the creation of Isreal. The fact is, the majority of the population of present day Israel, West Bank and Gaza has always been Palestinians, not Jewish.
Here's an interesting fact, Judaism is a religion, not a nationality or race. Anyone can convert into Judaism, but nobody can convert into Palestinian. Israel is the only country in the world that is the exclusive homeland of a religious group.
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I don't believe I ever said anything to that regards. The original boundaries of Israel were smaller than they are now, noone was displaced until fighting started. The arabs invaded, lost and new boundaries were formed. Yes many Palestinians were displaced in this fighting. But just as many Jews were displaced from arab lands. Israel absorbed the Jews. The arab countries used the newly created Palestinian people as pawns to fight the Jews.
It's not ethnic cleansing. It's a population transfer. There remains over one million arab muslims in Israel. How many Jews remain in Iran, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, etc etc etc.... Which people were truly ethnically cleansed?
Although Judaism is a religion, it is also linked with ethnicity and culture. You can not convert to being an Ashkenazi Jew, nor can you convert away from it.
There are many Jews in Israel who do not practice Judaism.
I think you've let your misconceptions about what a Jew is cloud your judgment on this issue.
Your argument is also flawed. Your saying israel is racist and practices ethnic cleansing for wanting to form a courtry based on culutural element. That doesn't make any sesne. If anyone can be a jew, then race has nothing to do with it. However, you clearly know this is wrong and that Jewishness is related to ethnicity.