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Originally Posted by blankall
Quite the opposite. Huge swaths of German people were removed from areas all over Europe. The borders of Germany were entirely redrawn. The land area removed from German control was many times the total land area of Israel.
The Israeli/Palestinian issue is far more complex, with most Jewish Israelis being refugees from Arab/Muslim lands and Jews having a long history in the land of Israel.
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You're right, Ethnic Germans were removed en masse from eastern Europe and boarders were redrawn, but those were acute events. The Polish slaughter of cultural Germans after WW2 were horrific. But after the dust settled, the boarders were stabilized and there was not a continual flow of settlers encroaching further and further into Germany. Quite the opposite, many of the families forced from Poland have returned to their ancestral homes.
My original statement was not one of morality or justification, but one of understanding. Everyone knows that Jews have genealogical connections to the Levant. This can be true, while also understanding that Isreal have been forcing Palestinians out of there home in a process that has been on going to several decades.