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Israel announces 'total' blockade on Gaza
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Are you saying Palestine isn't a state, or that Israel isn't a state? Because if they are two states as they claim, inhabitants of one are definitely foreign to the other.
Isreal is not a legitimate state. It is a colonial project occupying Palestine. The settlers are the foreigners as they have been in every other historical case of colonialism.
That "drive them into the sea"/don't recognize them attitude is what got us here in the first place. Like it or not there are millions of Israelis there now and they aren't going anywhere. Everyone must live with the consequences of the past even when it was unfortunate or atrocious.
The genocide of Palestinians is not in the past, it is ongoing. And they are displaced constantly to make way for more incoming settlers. You are simply handwaving genocide because it's status quo.
And you are handwaving away the realpolitik because you have issues with unethical behavior in the past, presumably of Sykes-Picot and the British Mandate. I agree that this was terrible, however it's one thing to say the levant ought to belong to Palestine and the current occupants are illegitimate because of historical injustices, it's another thing to actually take control of it. That is not a viable option for Palestine although they seem to be willing to settle for nothing less.
The real tragedy is that the killing is perpetuated by people who were simply born into these places and had no hand in what you call colonial injustices, they are merely fighting for safety, life, and loved ones due to the irrevocable trajectory of the past and its causality. They become slaves to a past that many are unwilling to accept or see from another perspective. Every atrocity makes the other's point of view less accessible and justifies the next one.
At the end of the day, Palestine was defeated. They were defeated a long time ago. Until they are willing to accept this and make concessions for peace, the misery will continue. Israel isn't going anywhere, and they evidently have no leverage left but acts of terrorism that burns whatever goodwill they have remaining.