Thursday, April 21, 2011

Would a reverse Nakba happen if Israel and Palestine merged into one democracy


Would a reverse Nakba happen if Israel and Palestine merged into one democracy?
The way the the binational agreement would work is that Israel and Palestine would merge together into one secular democracy. Since Palestinians make up the majority of the population if the population of Israel and the Palestinian territories are put together, would the Palestinians create a tyranny of the majority and vote for a Jewish Nakba in vengeance? Or will both ethnicities integrate into the new democratic society?
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1 :
Israel can not merge with "Palestine", because Israel IS Palestine. Palestinian Arabs would be the minority even if you count all the population of Gaza, West bank and add the Israeli Arabs to them. Secular democracy with Hamas? You are joking. Sorry, but your project is absolutely impossible to implement(and besides, Israel absolutely does not need to do this)
2 :
There has already a Jewish Nakba , the forced expulsion of Jews from Arab and Islamic lands. Yes it would be a disaster if Israel no longer existed as the lone and true Jewish state.
3 :
No country on earth would allow nukes to fall into the hands of the Palestinians. If I had to live as the Palestinians do, I'd probably use them the first chance I had. Merging the two would mean sharing everything. Including the nukes. The only way they would merge is if Israel gave up it's nukes, which will never happen.
4 :
Did you ever see an Arab country without a tyranny? they may try to hide it and spin the truth but all Arab countries are not democratic at best they hold fake elections like in Syria where Assad always get 100% of votes. And they will kill all Jews who wont convert to Islam like they did in the past, and still preach for in their mosques every day 5 times.
5 :
Yes it would, and most of the Jews would be wiped out, or forced to flee. The few that might be left would become not 2nd class but 3rd or 4th class citizens, or possibly made into slaves.
6 :
A reverse Naqba has already happened I've attached the Wikipedia article, and a blog how Jewish life was and currently is in the former lands of thriving Mizrahi communities. I would say enjoy, but not really, since it is tragic.
7 :
Here's a simple fact, Palestinians will NOT drive a million Jew out of Palestine and take their houses.
8 :
It is true that the Israeli Jews have lots of crimes to answer for. Under conditions of UN resolution 194 which says that those returning should live at peace with their neighbors (and I think any Palestinian refugee who returns would be happy to agree to the terms of that resolution) as well as equal rights for all, none of the Jews would be forced out. A lot would simply leave because they like their comfortable position of privilege too much and want to live in a western culture, and would move back to Europe or the U.S. But you could not call it a Nakba.
9 :
This will NEVER happen. If such a thing were ever proposed by any mainstream Israeli politician, he'd soon meet with a bullet.