Eve Bloomgarden MD 🟦 🟧🎗️

Between 850K-900K Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries over several decades after WWII. No one discusses right of return or reparations. No one accuses those Arab countries of stealing land and pretends those Jewish families and their ancestors are entitled to it. That is actually the norm for refugees after conflicts. Most move on in other countries. The one exception is Palestinians. That’s why the UN has invented a separate definition of refugee that only applies to Palestinians and counts people who have never lived there and were born/grew up elsewhere as refugees. Because the entire point is to use that framing to advocate for the destruction of the current state there, not to deliver justice or freedom for Palestinians. That goal and the entitlement that comes with it is the main hindrance to actual peace and self-determination for the Palestinians who remain.