Israel does not have a right to that land, as they came in and took it from the people already there. As such, calling it "Israeli land" is a bit of a stretch.
The Jewish people have the longest standing claim to the land, consistantly living there since the 10th century B.C. In fact, the Arabs were not even a considerable ethnic group in the area until the time of the Crusades.
And not only do the Jewish people actually have the longest standing claim to the land, but as a general rule the Arabs and the Jews there today both moved into the land at the same time. It was barely populated before 1947.
Even if none of the above were the case though, the British Empire controlled that land prior to Israel, and upon relinquishing it, decided to give it to the Jewish people. As such, perhaps your real issue is with the British Empire.
So if you support Israel's right to exist because they have the longest standing claim to the land, what do you think about reparations in the US?
The key difference is continued persecution.
What we did to the Native Americans was often wrong, but today we have shown the world that we can live in peace together. The Jewish people already tried that – they lived in Europe for thousands of years, and persecution never let up. History has shown that they need a place to call their own – a place to be safe. The Native Americans are safe today, and the Jewish people should be as well.
The Jewish people should not be forcing people out of the West Bank by settling there. Stealing property and largescale emminent domain is never right.
Firstly, the Jewish people are only resettling that land. Several years ago, Israel forced their citizens out to let Palestinians in – exchanging property rights for peace. Peace has not been the result, and after rocket after rocket has been launched at them, they are taking back their property rights by moving back in. But they are not doing it through emminent domain at all. Rather, re-establishments can only be made on:
1. Unowned land
2. Purchased land
3. Or land with pre-existing Jewish communities.
None of those examples are cases of emminent domain or stealing.
Also, the Hague Convention states that since there has never been a sovereign state of “Palestine”, there cannot legally be an “occupation of Palestinian lands.”
Speaking of the Hague Convention, it shouldn't even matter because those involved were not people in the Middle East. They didn't understand the problems there.
We are in the US, so by that logic our opinions should matter even less than that of Europe’s. That does not mean however that I support all of the UN’s decisions. But my reason for not supporting some is not because of their location, but rather because of the members that make it up: namely, the nations of the Arab League and others who have shown a continued hostility towards Israel.
Less than 50% of the overall population is Jewish. Do you think everyone should be able to vote, or do you think the Jewish people should maintain their majority status? One must give, and it sounds like you are advocating for voter suppression and an ethno-state.
Firstly, that assumption is a bit misleading. As per the latest population count, "Jews and others" make up 52.1% of the population, with "Arabs" making up only 47.9%.
Even if that assumption was not misleading, I would stand by the need for the Jewish people to maintain a dominant voice in Israel. Israel was formed expressly as a safe haven for the Jewish people in 1948, and since then, thousands of Jewish people have moved there. Just as religious identity is tied up with the national identity of many other countries in the Middle East, so too is a Jewish presence tied up in the identity of Israel. History has shown us what happens to the Jewish people when they do not have a dominant voice in a nation they reside in, and if the presence of Israel can be a safe harbor from that, then I support it whole-heartedly. Voter suppression is not an ethical way to go about that, but it is also true that based on the patterns of history, it is essential for the Jewish people to maintain a safe harbor for themselves.
P.S. I would add though that those who proactively launch rockets at Israel, fund the people who do, or support the launching of rockets against Israel – perhaps shouldn’t have the right to vote in Israel. If I were to have funded 9/11, I should face some consequences for that. I should not be able to vote in the US; I should not be a free person in the US. I should either be in jail, given the death penalty, or kicked out of the country for my involvement with the trajedy of 9/11. Same thing for the Palestinians that are promoting and actively engaging in terrorism against the very nation they demand a vote in.
Yeah, that sounds like advocation for an ethno-state. This is why Zionists are similar to Nazis: they both promote an ethno-state.
Firstly, an ethno-state by definition occurs when one ethnicity makes up the entirety of a nation-state. Zionists do not advocate for the Jewish people to be the only people allowed into Israel, and as such, do not advocate for an ethno-state.
The Nazis did however. They argued for the supremacy of the Aryan race, and the extermination of others. Zionists do neither of those things, with many of our key proponents being in fact born out of the Holocaust.
If however, by ethno-state you are referring to an instance when one ethnic group maintains a prominent voice in their nation, then most every country on earth is guilty of this. Japan is mostly made up of Japanese people, India is mostly made up of Indian people, and Ireland is mostly made up of Irish people. To unfairly demand that Israel be different is holding them to a standard you do not hold anyone else to.
Speaking of Nazis, did you know the Zionists collaborated with them? If that doesn't show you that there's something wrong with Zionism, I don't know what will.
You're right, they did. A Zionist organization made a deal with Hitler called the Haavara Agreement, which advocated for Germany’s Jews to be relocated to the land of Israel. The context for this however is important: Hitler’s stated solution to “the Jewish problem” was at the time, not extermination. Rather, he took it in steps: first he took their wealth away, then he pushed them out of Germany, then the Night of Broken Glass happened, then ghettos, and then extermination. At the time of the Haavara Agreement, the Nazis were advocating for a move to push the Jewish community out of Germany (think the Madagascar Plan). As such, the Zionist organization reasoned that if the Nazis were going to push people out of Germany anyways, they might as well secure a safe place for them to go to. This is similar to the French paying the Nazis exorbiant fees to have them bring Jewish orphans to safety in France: they were in no way condoning, colluding with, or supporting the Nazis, but were rather trying to save the Jewish people therein.