"pretty disturbing"? -- Love that true gift for understatement. Try living with a target on your back, fearing your kids will be beat up on the way to school, the everyday reality of guards with machine guns protecting your community center, your kid at Harvard or Cornell suing the school because every community but yours is entitled to a "safe space", your formerly feminist peers telling you "metoo unless you're a Jew"...and the list goes on and on and on...
Ron Hassner's survey revealed about half can't name which river: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/10/is-support-for-from-the-river-to-the-sea-based-upon-ignorance/
Mahmoud Abbas has declared apartheid for Palestine: "not a single Israeli will live among us in Palestine".
Germany absorbed the East Prussian, Sudeten and Silesian Germans.
Italy absorbed the Italians from Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Istria.
Japan absorbed its settlers from Saipan.
France absorbed its pied noirs from Algeria.
Only the Arabs decided not to absorb their refugees created by a lost war they started because their highest priority wasn't to have a state for the Palestinian Arabs, but to prevent the Jews from building their state. That's what UK foreign minister Ernest Bevin said in 1947 and it's still true.
Arab land from Morocco to Iran is 650x the size of Israel. If they want a Muslim state, there are many to choose from.
Dr. Einat Wilf systematically demolishes the delusions the West and the West Bank and Gazan Arabs have about the conflict: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ku4cE_e4U
The latter must have their mind reformatted in the same way the Japanese were cleansed of Bushido after 1945. Dr. Wilf draws on this parallel using John Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII. Only when they admit 1948 is a closed issue, that Palestine from the river to the sea isn't Islamic Waqf and prove Bevin wrong will the conflict end.
Secular westerners are amazingly deaf to the religious motivations that they've proclaimed clearly since the first ethniic cleansings of Jewish settlements started in 1920, continued in 1929, 1936, 1939 and 1947-56 when 850000 Jews were dispossessed and expelled from every Arab country.
