This is the conversation my Jewish friends and relatives have in quiet, and won't admit to in public. As a goy, it's safe for them to say it to me, but they won't say it out loud to their Jewish friends. The secret every Jew knows is that their state has done irreconcilable wrongs and treated the Palestinians the same as Jewish oppressors have treated Jews throughout history.
I look forward to finishing this, but I will admit... so many articles like this require a base knowledge of regional history and/or stopping to go read other articles to understand all of the references. It feels like there is such a high barrier to entry to really understand the situation in Israel. I have no idea what any of the following are, and it slows my learning: the Nakba Tisha B’Av Jaffa Safed Knesset I'm not trying to complain... just... acknowledging that learning the history of the Middle East is no small feat, and I hope people are patient with slow learners like me.
The Nakba: translates into "the catastrophe", is the word Palestinians use to relate to their displacement from their original homes/towns/cities in 1948. Jaffa: Arabic town which is now part of Tel-Aviv/Jaffa. It is in the south of Tel-Aviv and predominantly Arabic. Even though heavy gentrification is pushing the Arabic population out of it. Safed: An Arabic city in the north that is now predominantly Jewish. Knesset: Israeli parliament I will leave this here as a continuation of the above posted piece: https://conquer-and-divide.btselem.org/map-en.html