There's no doubt that the Muslim population of the region has been there for a very long time. There's also no doubt that the Hindu population had been in the area for a very very long time. There also should be no doubt that the Muslims and the Hindu had trouble living with each other. It's basic history that the region was colonized by the British, and that the borders of modern day India and modern day Pakistan were negotiated by a British partition.
The Muslims got their independent nation (one of a few dozen), and India became her own independent nation. Dare I say that it seems that they hammered out a two state solution?
I see zero people questioning Pakistan or India's right to exist. Such rhetoric would, and probably should be seen as racist or bigoted. It's not like, with the establishment of these independent states, that everybody magically landed on the correct side of the border. It's delusional to think that people weren't relocated. You'd also need to be a special kind of moron to label the Muslims or the Hindu as colonizers in the region. The British were the colonizers, and the existence of these two independent nation is the product of the British negotiating how to divide the land upon leaving.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Similarly, the Muslims inhabited the land known as Israel for a very long time. The Jews inhabited the land for a very very long time. The British didn't so much colonize the land as they did win the terroritoy from the Ottoman Empire after WWI.
It wasn't too long before the British realized that the two factions were having trouble living together, and they tried to hammer out a two state solution. The Jews took every offer, despite how restrictive. The Muslims rejected every offer, no matter how generous.
It didn't take a conflict to get the Jews the only Jewish state in the world, it took the most notorious genocide in human history.
It's just as absurd to call the Jews "colonizers" of the land as it is to raise that charge against the Muslims of Pakistan or the Hindus of India. Still, people are making that charge, loudly and clearly, about the Jews. Yeah, a handful of "Palestinians" were relocated three miles to the South. Like I said earlier, it's not like it's the first time in history that that's happened. It wasn't even the first time in a period of twenty-four months that it happened.
Still, Israel gets singled out to be dismantled or destroyed. It's Israel that people say doesn't have a right to exist. May I dare say that, if the Muslims experienced a genocide in Europe, and a bunch of Jews were relocated three miles South to create yet another Muslim state in Palestine, that zero of you would be calling the Muslims colonizers, or calling for the destruction or dismantling of the Muslim state, or questioning its right to exist.
The only things that are special, or unique about Israel is that it's a democracy in the Middle East that isn't throwing gays off rooftops. There's nothing special, or unique, much less nefarious about how the nation came to be that you couldn't point to with dozens of other nations.
Still, here we are. We're not having a conversation about dividing up the land. We're not having a discussion about how the Jews and the Muslims can have their places to live. We're not having this discussion because, to even have the discussion, is to take the side of Israel. To take the side of Israel is to acknowledge the right of the Jews to exist in the same manner as the Christians, the Muslims, the Hindus, etc do, and have several times over.
Don't be fooled by the people who claim to be advocates for peace while having kept their gobs shut until Israel retaliated for the largest slaughtering of Jews since the Holocaust. Meet the people who laughably claim that they want a peaceful dismantling of Israel with nothing but scorn. Don't buy into this paper thin understanding of history.
The calling for the dismantling or destruction of the only Jewish state in the world has no basis in something specially bad about how Israel came to exist as it is today. The history of mankind is one of expansion, colonization, conquest, relocation, and violence. To pretend that the Jews are special offenders in this case, to the point that the Jews particularly shouldn't have a nation, while not calling for the "peaceful" dismantling of any other state populated by any other people can only say one thing about you.
We all know what that says about you.
Some of you are so bold to chant for Jewish blood in public. Most of you are just cowards.