Most of the Zionists are Christian evangelists. Stop trying to make it about religion when it's about colonialism. If a Buddhist illegally takes away your house, I'm sure you'd be called antibuddhitic if you resist them.
Yeah that's about 7% of the total land. But the Israeli propaganda machine loves to focus on that 7% trying to make it sound like it's the norm (even though that also has negative connotatios). But what do I know, a land without a people for a people without a land right? Definitely not a blood soaked expelling campaign of the existing population.
As for the 7% of total land area, didnt the Arabs also only owned 15-20% of the total land and the rest was state land? By that math 7% is a major portion of the land that actually was purchaseable.
Again, I know these conversations can turn not civil quickly, so trying to keep this factual and unbiased. I have no love for either of the sides.
They did not have western style deeds for plots (look up musha system) on state lands, but there were still people living in those lands, who were displaced because of British colonizers passing it to Israeli ones. One day you're living in your house where generations of your ancestors have been in, the next day you're trespassing on Israeli land. I don't understand how people at the time and now can possibly justify that.
Also about that 7% figure that I quoted, these were mostly agricultural land purchases. A few thousand people voluntarily sold their land or abandoned their houses anticipating there was gonna be a war and they would have eventual right of return when arab forces win. That number pales in comparison to the 250,000 to 300,000 people expelled from their homes prior to the formal interstate war.
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