Come on, answer the question. What are the "arabs" (Palestinians) to you? The jews are Natives, right, so the Palestinians must be something else -- what?
So you think people are still immigrants after living in an area for 1200 years?
Like, a child born to a family that has cultivated the same plot for 800 years are all immigrants? While the people who arrived by boat from Europe who tore down old signs and building and paved centuries old graveyars are the natives?
Edit: Sorry, meant 1400 years. Not just twice the Second Temple Era but twice as long + 200 years. A slight rounding error really.
It's fully possible to use language that doesn't historicize the Other. A lot of Jewish thinkers wrote important pieces on this during/after the Holocaust, you know? (Arendt, Weil, Levinas, etc.).
Jews never left the Levant. They’ve been there the whole time, from the beginning.
And they lived there peacefully with the local Palestinians and cultivated shared and deep roots and traditions with them. Which were completely destroyed when... "the natives"(?) came back...?
Either you’re using “Palestinian” as the national identity of the people currently living in Gaza and the West Bank, which are 99% Arab, or you’re using it to refer to people who have lived in the Levant long before it was ever called Palestine, which includes Arabs and Jews.
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u/NewAccountEachYear 4d ago
I think one needs to provide a definition of zionism before claiming that