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Originally Posted by Sliver
Okay, so didn't you just prove my point? The Jews moved to Israel. Beninho said the population of Jews in Arab countries dropped 99% since 1948 because of genocide.
Also, if Arab nations are bad actors for making life unbearable for Jews decades ago, isn't Israel a bad actor currently for making life miserable for Palestinians literally today, which seems to be the more pressing problem than stuff that happened before most Palestinians were even born?
And if confiscating Jewish property is bad (it is), then isn't it also bad the Israelis keep stealing land and property from non-Jews (again, today...not years ago)?
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If Israel were to declare all land ownership illegal, I would agree with you.
If you are referring to the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority has made sale of land to Jews punishable by death. Any land that can be proven to be privately owned by Arabs in the West Bank cannot be used by Israeli settlers. A land dispute between two nations is not the same as removing all land owned by private citizens of a minority group.
You could draw equivalencies, as what actually occurred can be seen as a population swap. Jews moved from Arab countries and resettled in Israel. Arabs moved from what became Israel and, if they had them, were stripped of their citizenship and land rights in other Arab countries so they could be used as pawns to fight a war of attrition against Israel.
There's also the issue of Israel responding to various invasions. The minority citizens of, for example, Libya were not militarily invading Libya.
So yes, there are similarities, but the situations are not the same.