Let’s spell this out in the simplest terms possible.
Israelis came to a land with its own native population. They wanted to live in the land and the land was not very large. (Israel is a small country.)
That required that the people who were already there be removed.
This was done in stages. Some of the early parts were done by buying the land, generally from landlords who didn’t live in Palestine, then evicting the natives. Most of it was done with violence, starting with the Nakba.
The project of Israel is to create a Jewish religious-ethnic state where there hasn’t been one for about a couple thousand years.
Those people also breed faster than Israelis.
This means they must, again, be removed. There are two ways to do this. You can get them to move away from the land you want, which is known as ethnic cleansing, or you can kill them, which if done in large enough numbers against a specific group is known as genocide.
Israel’s project is intrinsically one of ethnic cleansing, with the possibility of genocide.
That’s how it was designed.
This is why I support a one state solution, in which Israel becomes a secular state with everyone having citizenship. As long as it is a “Jewish” state, ethnic cleansing will always be the goal, at least until it is completed.
Israel cannot be redeemed until the basis for its existence is changed.
This doesn’t make Israel unique, many if not most states were settler states at some point, with more or less ethnic cleansing (sometimes they just made the conquered people the lower castes, as with Normans in England or Aryans in India).
We now believe that ethnic cleansing and genocide is bad and that it shouldn’t be done any more. (Or we say we believe that.)
When Israelis say “you oppose what you yourself did” they aren’t wrong. But that’s like saying “well, you murdered a bunch of people, why can’t I?”
At the end of the day, however, this will be determined not by what is moral, but by balance of force. For a long time the Israelis had the most force, the question now is if they still do.
If they do (with America and Europe’s help) then they will keep moving towards their project.
If they don’t, then the best they can hope for is a single state solution. All other end states for them are worse.
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