StJohnMcCrae

"Openly declare they want to take over the land" "invasion" - your hatred and paranoia towards Jewish existence is palpable in that statement. It echos two thousand years of Jewish persecution. The 1948 border were acceptable to all parties but the Arab coalition. Now 80 years later they wish they had taken the deal.

Jews aren't foreign invaders, they've literally always been in the levant. We never fully left, despite the efforts of multiple foreign empires. Most of the Jews who came to israel, came fleeing the various ethno-nationalist movements of 19th and 20th century Europe and the Middle East.

That's not an invasion, that's a refugee crisis. Notice the difference between how Europe and North America treat foreign refugees, vs the Palestinians. If you show up in dearborn Michigan, you might get some nasty rumors spread about you - if you show up in gaza as a Jew, you'll get your head cut off on a Livestream unless you act in service to their hybrid war on Israel.

Palestinian nationalism is an offshoot of Arab nationalism (which itself is a reaction to Turkish, German, and ultimately French nationalism). They're all ethno-nationalist movements, to varying degrees.

There's no version of a unified Palestinian state where Jews aren't basically enslaved and robbed of everything they've built there. Jewish independence in the middle east is an entirely rational self-defense measure against Muslim Arab Supremacy. Just look at how the Kurds are faring - and they aren't even Kafir.

"It's really not until the 1930s that we start to see the keffiyeh change in meaning, not by the patterning that's in the scarf, but in its use."

-Wafa Ghnaim, a Palestinian dress expert and a senior research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Until the 1920s, the keffiyeh was almost exclusively worn by Bedouin men, according to Ghnaim, and it was simply a way to identify nomadic men in historic Palestine from villagers, fellaheen, and town people."

"According to Ghnaim, the first time we see the keffiyeh used as a political statement was during the Arab Revolt in Palestine in 1936 — an uprising against British rule that included demands for independence and an end to Jewish immigration."

"At that time, the majority of the armed resistance was taking place in the villages, and the fighters used the keffiyeh to hide their features — helping it to become associated with the revolution. The revolution's leaders issued an order for men to wear the keffiyeh to express solidarity with the revolutionaries and so that the British could not distinguish the fighters from others."

"In the 1960s, it became associated with Palestinian nationalism, particularly due to its adoption by leaders like Yasser Arafat. During this era, it represented solidarity and resistance against the Israeli occupation."

"Around the same time, the fedayeen — a term used to describe nationalist Palestinian militants — conducted guerilla operations while wearing the keffiyeh."

"Other prominent Palestinians also donned the keffiyeh during that time, included Leila Khaled — who was involved in two plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970 as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine."

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1216150515/keffiyeh-hamas-palestinians-israel-gaza

Historically, Palestine as an ethno-nationalist movement, formed in opposition to Jewish return. The keffiyeh as a political symbol, only gained widespread popularity as a means to hide one's identity from British authorities while protesting Jewish immigration - protests like mob violence, lynchings, burning businesses and homes, etc. Kind of like a Klan hood.

Yeah, leftists would never support genocide in order to protect their own power structure. Except for that one time.... Or that other time... And also...

But i'm sure you'd never see leftist college students TODAY running around LARPing as murderous ethno-nationalists.

But man, those liberals... Crazy, right?!