"Just about every Israeli I know well------fled the stink of islamic oppression-----most before 1948----and even before 1945--"
your friends are really not typical
vast majority of pre 1948 jews in israel were refugees from europe
majority in the 1950s were from arab lands
that's just a fact
hosfly .........no one anywhere wants to be taken over and expelled by any foreign group or power
anyone
faith and nationality irrelevant
that's why zionism and colonialism are just plain wrong and can't be explained or rationalised away
anyone's home is their right to stay there based on recent not ancient times
would you get out of your home and let a native american family take over because their tribe lived there 3,000 years ago and said it was their sacred ancestral land ???
So many Native Americans sympathize with Israel, and I happen to also be part Native American. Isn't it strange that millions and millions of refugees from war-torn Europe were able to move thousands of miles from their native land, land where their ancestors had lived no doubt for thousands of years, and somehow they were able to get on with their lives? Perhaps you can be the one to tell us why the UN said that anyone who was in the area of Israel for only two years could be considered a refugee? Do you actually think anyone in any area so short a time has an ancestral home there? By the way, Kvetching Yenta, I don't worry about Zionism (look up the correct definition), but I do worry about the Muslims murdering people in the name of their religion.
Hossfly what the UN and President Truman at the time and the whole world said (Resolution 191, I think) was that all those displaced in 1948, Jew and Arab alike or anyone anywhere should return to their homes.
That is a universal right in international law.
That is the moral cancer at the very heart of Israel's existence; it CANNOT grant that basic right and still exist as a Jewish majority state.
You can squirm and twist and turn; there's no escape from that thumbscrew however clever the hasbara.
And they ARE clever; fancy getting the dispossessed Native Americans and the blacks to support them when it is the pals who have been oppressed in Israel.
But the natives and former slaves are now full equal citizens of USA and past wounds can heal, hopefully.
Will that ever happen to the pals in Israel as a Jewish state?
By its definition, no, never.
Not for centuries.............