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[–] markko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You demonstrate a good enough understanding of the history that you clearly know that you are being deceitful.

While some elements of Israel's establishment can be classified as settler colonialism, it's not accurate to say that all of it is.

Is there any colonised country that this doesn't apply to? Colonisation is a core principle of Zionism. It's so central to Zionism that it's in the introductory paragraph on it's Wikipedia page. Many of the early Zionist leaders said that their goals could only be achieved through the displacement of Arabs, and the migration of Jews was, and still is, strongly encouraged by Zionists.

For example, when Israel was established. The muslim world started committing pogroms in mass against their Jewish communities even though they had nothing to do with Israel.

Gosh, I wonder if that was in response to the treatment of Arabs in Palestine.

These people who been living in their communities for hundreds, and for some, thousands, of years were forced to abandon everything, including their citizenship, and flee to Israel because that's the only place that took them in.

And they had no problem pushing out the Arabs (who had been living in their communities for hundreds, and for some, thousands, of years) on their way in.

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The total number of people from the exodus total around 1 million people. These people and their descendants now make up a very large chunk of the Israeli population, if not an outright majority.

Before they started settling in Palestine it used to be that less than 5% of the population were Jewish.

A majority of Australian colonists were sent there for committing petty crimes, such as theft. The industrial revolution left much of the working class without work, so theft in Britain rose rapidly. For the crime of trying to fees their family, over 100,000 people were forcibly transported to Australia. Their descendants now make up a very large chunk of the Australian population.