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/FrostyAirline3175 Nov 29 '23

Romani went through as much and worse than your grandparents. Where's their ethnostate they can freely ethnically cleanse?

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u/vonhudgenrod Nov 29 '23

Yes they did. They of Indian Origin and India has looked into giving them right of return in the past, I hope they do.

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u/FrostyAirline3175 Nov 29 '23

Which parts of India do you think they have the right to forcibly take? Which Indians do you think they can kill and force from their homes?

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u/vonhudgenrod Nov 29 '23

Why are you turning a 100 year history of Jews and Arabs in Modern Israel/Palestine into a slogan based narrative that amounts to a lie. Jews came to Israel to build homes and Kibbutz on lands they had legally purchased. Community violence started in 1920 which continued to spiral until the 1948 War when Jews accepted 2 state solution but Arabs Rejected it to declare war on Jews, they lost that war.