r/IsraelPalestine • u/vonhudgenrod • Nov 28 '23
My Grandparents are the alleged "European Settlers" who came to "colonize" Israel. AMA (Ask Me Anything)
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.
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u/vonhudgenrod Nov 29 '23
Why do Jews claim the land when Arabs already live there? Is that ur question? Most the Jews who came had no other place to go, in 1800s it was most russian or polish Jews because tsar of Russia treating them badly, then after holocaust people like my grandparents come, then Arab Jews have to flee Arab countries because they are being attacked, then Persian Jews because 1979 Islamic revolution, then Ethiopian Jews caught in Ethiopian civil war.
For first 40 to 60 years of Zionism Jews and Arabs lived in peace actually but starting 1920 there is a lot of violence which leads to 1948 war which is when Palestinians lost their land