To be annoyed nobody mentioned who started the war

They started defensive action.

@LuckyHazelFox the original poster said that Israel didn't start any wars which is factually incorrect and I am pointing that out.

That is an incredibly benign version of the events surrounding that period of history in that part of the world.

You believe Jordan, Syria and Egypt were the oppressed and Israel just attacked arab States for the fun of it?

@LuckyHazelFox

Israel

Hamas are the enemy

Ordinary Palestinians who just want to live in peace, do a job, raise a family and survive, are not the enemy.

Best estimates are that there are around 30,000 active members of Hamas.

There are approx 2 million Palestinians with Israeli Citizenship plus approx 0.5 million Palestinians living there without citizenship. So we're talking about 1% of Palestinians in Hamas.

Indiscriminately slaughtering ordinary Palestinians in the hopes that some of the dead may turn out retrospectively to be members of Hamas is not the action of anyone with a functioning moral compass.

What made Israel do that?

@Normalized

Israel started the 6-day war in 1967 which resulted in them taking control of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

May be read the quote history

Hamas set the terms of reference in how the conflict was to progress through their barbaric actions. Whatever your view on the political situation, those actions were barbaric and had no justification in any armed struggle for freedom. The response has been barbaric too. But you can't set of a chain of events so horrific and of that magnitude and then say the response is disproportionate. Hamas committed numerous war crimes including summary execution of civilians and hostage taking of civilians and using rape as a weapon of war, parading and defiling in public. The list goes on, as do the consequences. If you don't think they actually started it because of history, you can't deny they did bring the rules of engagement to where it is now.

Don't mention the persecution and massacre of Christians or the summary execution of their own people or anyone who doesn't fit their ideological beliefs, as it doesn't fit the narrative. We've managed to get this far without anyone having to actually think about this, so best not to bring it up now as we don't want to have to think about the truth of what our 'freedom' fighters do, even when there's no 'freedom' at stake.
Best just to keep to a generalised hate of anything Jewish. It's alot easier.
There no separation of what Israel is doing in Palastine and what Hamas has or would do in Israel and is and would do in Africa.
It's just that Israel are better at it than Hamas at the moment.

I can see that you started this thread with only one purpose, to spout misinformation, and there is no talking to someone like that.

Which was also the ancestral homeland of non-Israelis.

How many Arabs stayed in the Jewish state? Do they have the same rights as Jews? How many Jews stayed in Arab/Muslim states? Do they have the same rights as Muslims?

This is simply inaccurate. I don't want to point out how and why because I don't want to criticise what was done in light of the ensuing suffering on both sides. But if you really believe what you're saying, someone is feeding you fake news.

It is well documented that the Arab leaders of surrounding countries told the Arab citizens of the land to leave their homes while they deal with the Jews. Then once the Jews were gone/no longed an issue the arabs could come back. Some even said they would get the property of the Jews as a reward for doing this. Unfortunately the war didn't go to plan and the Jews remained. However in the end in Judea and Samaria which the Jordan occupied they changed the name to the west bank and did kill or kick out the indigenous Jewish along side refugee Jewish and immigration Jewish population. They stole their land, houses and property.

These are historical facts rather than made up 1947/48 fiction pushed by very hateful people. Yes some arabs were definitely pushed out of their homes during the conflict and that was wrong but not on the scale suggested by historical revisionists and not as a Jewish strategy but due to conditions of unrest created by the war.

Hard agree.

The lack of access to services is not the fault of Muslims or immigrants. It’s the fault of government cuts.

The annihilation of the Palestinians has been planned for decades. This was in the 70s.

"At Bibi Netenyahu's dinner table in Jerusalem, I listened with crawling dismay to Bibi talking about the future of his country. 'In the next war, if we do it right, we'll have a chance to get all the arabs out,' he said. We can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.' He joked about the Golani Brigade, the Israeli infantry force in which so many men were North African or Yemenite Jews.'They're okay as long as they're led by white officers.' he grinned."

Max Hastings, interview with Netanyahu in 1977. From his book" Going to the Wars".

And before that you had Menachem Begin and his terrorist friends blowing up British soldiers.

What on earth does that have to do with anything!

No, it happened when Jewish people threw people out of their homes and off their land. They’re still doing it.

The Balfour Declaration specifically said that existing residents should not be disadvantaged.

I never said anything about the Bible. Check the archeological evidence.