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The number of Israelis thinking of
leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers, while
many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing,
prepare to exercise their right of Return

Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course
of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine,
where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population
prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual
millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepare to exercise
their right of Return.

One of the many ironies inherent in the 19th century Zionist
colonial enterprise in Palestine is the fact that this increasingly
fraying project was billed for most of the 20th century as a haven in
the Middle East for “returning” persecuted European Jews. But today, in
the 21st century, it is Europe that is increasingly being viewed by a
large number of the illegal occupiers of Palestinian land as the much
desired haven for returning Middle Eastern Jews.

To paraphrase Jewish journalist Gideon Levy:

“If our forefathers dreamt of an Israeli passport to escape from
Europe, there are many among us who are now dreaming of a second
passport to escape to Europe.”

Several studies in ... >>>