Israelis are free to come and go as they please. The walls only restrict the movement of Palestinians.... not only to Israel but to the world. the walls separate Palestinians from each other. Palestinians in one part of the West Bank cannot travel freely to another part of the West Bank. Also the walls go around Gaza and the West Bank and enclose Palestinians, they don't go around Israel or enclose Israelis...
Israeli prisons for Palestinians separate families, students from schools, people requiring medical treatment from hospitals, the faithful from places of worship. Palestinians who live behind these walls have no citizenship, rights, freedom or justice. While Palestinians continue to suffer oppression and injustice some will resort to violence in pursuit of freedom and justice.
Canada should not unshakably support injustice and oppression.
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People who support the ethnic cleansing of Palestine of non-Jews and other Israeli atrocities believe a version of history unsupported by the evidence. This invented narrative of Jews returning home to Israel is designed to twist a foreign invasion into an act of defense and portray hostile invaders as innocent victims. Even Jewish historians have rejected these distortions, deliberate deceptions and outright lies:
New Historians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Genetic and archeological evidence prove Palestinian history in this region goes back to prehistoric times. Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews) and Jews who originate from this region are essentially the same race.
Epiphenom: The shared genetic heritage of Jews and Palestinians
Jews that left this region in the first and second century tended to keep their religion and intermarried with European, African and Asian converts to Judaism. Only the people that left can claim they are returning home. Unless some of these people are still alive (they would be 1800+ years old), Jews who claim they are "returning home" to Israel but were born somewhere else clearly fit the definition of immigrants.
The Jews that stayed in this region are ancestors of Palestinians. Over the centuries these people intermarried with immigrants and a majority converted to Islam and Christianity. These people clearly fit the definition of indigenous people.
The name Palestine originates from 390AD when this region was ruled by the Romans. By the time this region was conquered by the Ottomans, the indigenous Muslims, Christians and Jews were already known collectively as Palestinians.
Timeline of the name Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Under Ottoman rule, all Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews) lived together relatively peacefully. Jews and Christians were protected by the Ottomans as long as they paid their taxes.
Starting in the late 1800's European Jews began to immigrate to Palestine to avoid European discrimination, injustice and oppression as part of a movement known as Zionism. Zionists claimed that Palestine was "A land without people for a people without land". The only land without people at the time would have been Antarctica. Nearly every other region of the planet has been populated for tens of thousands of years just like Palestine. This "Land without people" lie is just one of many Zionist distortions and deceptions they promote in order to support their goal of cleansing Palestine of non-Jewish Palestinians.
By 1948, the land Zionists claimed had no people, was populated by about 1.3 million indigenous Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews).
European Jewish immigration to Palestine increased dramatically in the 1930's and 40's as a result increased European oppression and injustice towards Jews. By the early 1940's European Jews faced extermination if they didn't emigrate. Millions of Jews fled Europe. Hundreds of thousands illegally immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1947 the UN proposed a partition plan for European Jews living in the British Mandate of Palestine. The plan ignored the rights of hundreds of thousands indigenous Palestinians who lived here before European Jewish refugees began immigrating to the British Mandate of Palestine. The UN Partition plan proposed turning hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinian Muslims and Christians into second class citizens in a state for mostly European Jewish immigrants. Even though the indigenous Palestinians were the majority in the region (about 70%), they were never consulted and no vote was taken regarding the UN plan. The UN partition plan divided up the British Mandate of Palestine so the European immigrant side had a slim Jewish majority (55/45), more territory, the best farmland and control over the water resources. The majority non-immigrant Palestinians which had an overwhelming Muslim and Christian majority (99/1) got less land, (very little of it arable) and no control over the water resources. Most of the indigenous Palestinian side was desert.
The 1947 UN partition plan helped solve a post WW II European refugee crisis by shifting the burden onto the indigenous Palestinians. Anyone in the world claiming to be Jewish could go to Palestine and help the Zionist immigrants cleanse the British Mandate of Palestine of indigenous non-Jews. That ethnic cleansing war continues to this day.
Jewish Israeli historians have determined that the Jewish immigrants to Palestine never intended to share Palestine with non-Jewish Palestinians. The Zionists had always envisioned turning Palestine into a Jewish only state and removing the indigenous non-Jews. Zionists often disagreed about the means to remove non-Jews, but they always agreed that the Jewish state would have a Jewish majority and in order for that to happen, hundreds of thousands of non-Jew had to leave. Some Zionists proposed non-violent means of achieving this goal (I could even support some of their proposed non-violent methods). But the Zionists who proposed violent ethnic cleansing eventually got their way. By the time the British had abandoned their Palestinian mission (1948), Zionist terrorists and war criminals had already killed thousands of non-Jewish Palestinians in a series of atrocities and terrorist acts:
List of Irgun attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lehi (group) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first two waves of Palestinian refugees had already fled Palestine by the time the European immigrants declared independence:
1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigenous people never invited the European Jewish immigrants. The indigenous Palestinians were never consulted when the UN gave their land to mostly European immigrants. Zionists came to this region as immigrants and started the ongoing ethnic cleansing war. As a result of Zionism, millions of indigenous Palestinians live as nationless refugees without recognized rights or freedoms in terrible oppression and injustice. People living this way tend to become violent over time...
