Boycotting Israel isn't anti-Semitic – how many human rights groups need to condemn it until this is clear? Is the BDS movement singling out Israel? No – but the British government is singling it out for impunity

must be why the arabs were so eager to be ruled by faisal (a hashemite ie not from palestine whatsoever) in syria in 1920.

Palestine is part of Greater Syria.

or its about having israelis in an israeli sate and arabs in an arab state.

So you want to ethnically cleanse people?

And its Abbas thats been saying that there will be no jews in the palestinian state, so who is racist here?

He said no settlers. It is an insult to ask us to legitimize land theft, and in international law one brick over the green line is illegal.

The democratic rights can be safeguarded just like say the scottish in the UK or the basque or the tamils in sri lanka etc...

So badly? Since those are all countries with independence movements and the latter 2 are so abused that they had an insurgency

state with a national identity doesnt have to be ethnically pure, especially when minority have their own

A state with an ethnoreligious identity alienates members of the community that do not belong to said identity. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state, has a Jewish symbol on its flag and it's anthem goes nefesh yehudi kadimah "a Jewish soul is yearning". Anyone can be Palestinian, Muslim or Christian and before 1948 many of our indigenous Jewry identified as such.

The is pure speculation and bad speculation at that. It is in Israels interest for the palestinian state to be stable and successful. This, for example was not done for nothing

So it's speculation that the West Bank won't have sea access and will be completely landlocked and encircled and thus indefensible? What about my inalienable right of return? I can't return to the West Bank or Gaza because my ancestors weren't kicked out of there, my right of return is to Jaffa (currently in the southernmost part of Telaviv)

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