
Zionism is little more than the concept of Jewish national identity. Kinda like Southern Syrian was the national identity of the people now called Palestinian today. Prior to both national identities, the people of the levant viewed themselves as part of the Ottoman fabric. Both Israelis and Palestinians had active roots in the territory at the time of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. European Jews accelerated this concept of national identity for the Jews in the geographical region of
The Samaritans have a fairly similar history to that of Jews. They were also subject to Roman genocide, but it was under the Byzantines a few centuries later. They received less protections under Muslim rule than Judaism did, which is why there’s now only a few hundred Samaritans.
Uhhh the people living there currently have a right to exist. That's how it works. US should give as many reparations as possible to native Americans and do whatever they can to ensure they and their culture survives. Israel should do the same in Gaza and the West Bank and stop treating Arabs as second class citizens and allow them back into their homeland. I also think anyone who moved to Israel in the last 5 years into stolen homes should be forced to move out but that's just me
Palestine, while the Muslim and Christian in the region started first with broad Arab national identity, then Arab Syrian national identity, then eventually Palestinian national identity. But even this wasn’t nearly as strong as the Syrian, Lebanese, or Jordanian national identities until nearly a decade later. To make a modern comparison, this would be like Cherokees returning to Georgia following the fall of the U.S. and being met with hostile conflict. Is it wrong for them to engage
In the fighting with the occupants of Georgia? Possibly. Is it condemnable for them to return, buy land, develop a nation, and seek to exist as an independent nation? Hard to say. Would the situation be an ultimate cluster fuck? Yea absolutely, but I find it hard to argue that they should remain in reservations to avoid difficult questions.
Let’s play this out a little. Let’s say the native Cherokee currently living in Georgia align with Cherokee from Oklahoma who are buy large plots of land to develop a structured state. The U.S. falls and each state is promised its own independence along with each tribal nation. Do the residents of Georgia have the right to engage in armed conflict with the Cherokee nation arrivals in Georgia in order to try and deny them a nation state? Do the Cherokee have a right to a nation state there?