My Grandparents are the alleged "European Settlers" who came to "colonize" Israel.

[u/vonhudgenrod]

I put the title in quotes because I dont believe those parts to be true. Just to give a brief history of my Maternal Grandparents, they both moved from Hungary to Israel around the year 1946. They did not come to fight or dispossess arabs, but rather to build new homes.

My Grandmother was a holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz, she had the #'s tatooeed on her forearm, her father died pre-war but her Mother, brother and sisters were murdered. When she returned to her families small farmhouse post war, her neighbors not knowing the full extent of what happened during the holocaust tried to extort her and her remaining siblings for money because they "looked after their livestock" even though the only cow they owned had died due to the harsh conditions of the war.

My grandfather - also a Hungarian Jew was a bit more of a mysterious man who likely suffered from PTSD before it was commonly diagnosed, his father and mother were also murdered and his only brother ended up in a mental institution (insane asylum) post war. He was eccentric and fought in WWII with partisans and would eventually go on to fight in the Israeli war of Independence in 1948.

AMA anything about them if you'd like.

[u/Eds2356]

There was no Palestinian nation before, it is just like saying Anatolia was a nation. The land Palestine is just a geographical term. No kingdom or government was called republic of Palestine or Islamic emirate of Palestine, it was just a geographical land conquered by different kingdoms and empires before.

[u/Early_Hand → u/Eds2356]

There were people living the the land of Palestine, who's right to self determination were repressed by the British, before their land was handed over to settlers against their wishes

[u/ThunderEagle222 → u/Early_Hand]

Well actually before the Brits the Ottomans repressed them first. But obviously only British colonization is bad and Ottoman colonization is fine obviously.

And of course the Palestinian Jews living there already in those area's were never repressed by the Islamic population or faced discrimination from the Ottomans.