if we go back far enough you could make that argument lol. all i’m saying why do we choose that time period (first few centuries AD) to determine the inhabitants of a land for all eternity.

according to historical and religious sources, moses was likely born in egypt around the 13-14th century BC. he then led the israelites to what was then canaan, and what is now israel/palestine/jordan and killed the people that lived there. so if we set that period to say another 1500 years back, then the jews really belong in egypt and not israel.

that’s one aspect among a couple other changes. they also prevent the supreme court from overruling laws/bills that the knesset has passed. israeli politicians have been complaining for a while now that the lawmakers who have been elected by a majority shouldn’t be bogged down by people who they say are a elite minority that don’t represent the populace. they want a greater say in selecting judges like we do in the us.

for what’s it worth, i think netanyahu will back down and the US will commend israel for being the good guys as usual and the occupation and apartheid will continue, business as usual.

>never said anyone has to give up land

they are giving up land though, when palestine was partitioned, jews were 1/3 of the population and owned 7% of the land, the only district in which they were a majority was jaffa. but in the partition plan they got more than half the land. today someone who has no ties to the land but converts to judaism can emigrate to israel, no questions asked but the arabs who were expelled during the nakba, whose families have lived there for generations cannot go back to their homes.

it hasn’t been majority jewish since the 4th century when constantine the roman emperor embraced christianity. by the 5th century, the jewish population was 10-15%. even when palestine was partitioned in 1947, after numerous aliyahs and emigration under the ottomans and the british, the jewish population was around 30%.

the people that have lived there over the millennia are now arab. if you wanna apply your logic and give people back the lands that they lived in around 2000 years ago, all white people should go back to europe. both north and south america have been more recently settled by europeans compared to how long there hasn’t been a jewish majority in palestine.

take england for example, it was conquered by the danes in the 11th century (cnut defeated aethelred the unready and ultimately became king of england, norway and denmark). should we do genetics testing on every englishman and send back anybody with scandinavian dna? dont forget the normans who invaded and conquered england in the 12th century (william the conqueror defeated harold ii). the same goes for every country in the world. the aryans migrated to india around 2000 BC from what is now Iran and central asia, the original natives were dark skinned. should every light skinned indian (which is a lot of northern india) be sent back to iran? why this special treatment for israel?

‘over the millennia’ means over thousands of years, not the last 1000 years lol

Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn; Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים, Fālasṭīnīm) or Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (الفلسطينيين العرب, al-Filasṭīniyyīn al-ʿArab), are an ethnonational group[30][31][32][33][34][35][36] descending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who are today culturally and linguistically Arab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians

my government oppresses the natives: i sleep

my government takes away my freedoms: real shit

they’re protesting against the overhaul of a judicial system that has consistently justified evicting palestinians from their land, a slap on the wrist for killing innocent palestinians and a bunch of other apartheid bs that helps maintain the and even advance the colonization project.

the israeli army designates palestinian land where people live as a military firing zone, the people attempt to get justice from israeli courts (the country that’s currently occupying them, what a joke lol), the courts tell them to fuck off, they get evicted and later zionists build ‘settlements’ on that land.

also 5000+ people showed up in teaneck to support israel back in 2021 when they were bombing the hell out of gaza.