"New Israel" , a not so modest proposal

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174. Huh?

If you're talking about America's war on its own indigenous population, when have I ever said that was ok?

If you're talking about how Israel was created, it was different than what you describe, because much of Israel's Jewish population were refugees after wwii.

Britain colonized the area, taking it over from the Ottoman Empire. After wwii, Israel was essentially created by the UN, and many Jews moved to Israel from all over the world. Not exactly the same story as a bunch of European settlers conquering a new world.

It's a complicated mess and it's easy to just say a "two-state solution" would solve everything, but the wars in the area have largely been because Palestinians (or at least their leaders and ectremists) and Israel's neighbors refuse to share the region in any way with Jews. I'm not saying every action on the Israeli side was proper, but they do have a solid claim to the region and a legitimate right to be there.

America wasn't created through international agreement, nor were the Europeans who largely settled it refugees, for the most part.